Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-25

of justice is indeed a lending to the Lord, to
be repaid, a thousand fold, to the givcr. But
England grants justice to those only who can
wrest it from her, the poor and weak she
brushes under foot,
Who has not heard of the magnificent Gel
ba tree, that wonder of the tropics, lifting Its
green crown two hundred and fifty feet above
the earth, spreading forth its branches each
mighty tree in itself, towering above the
forcst,-a king, with its enormous trunk, full
forty feet in girth rising smooth for hun
dred feet like some tall light house. The
! great winds teach it the mighty music OF the
ocean, and all the myriad leaves sing the cool
song caught from unnumbeTed waves, to the
painting dweller in those trOpic heats But,
10! on that vast trunk appears small green
shoot, like a serpents head, and the mighty
tree shudderS through all its limbs and groans
at the terrible tragedy whose shadow is steal
ing towards it. That serpent head is a deadly
parasite, the cruel Jagua, and it steals up the
trunk and winds around the branches, and
waves its gaudy brilliant wreaths in scorn
and triumph, and covers the tree with the
splendor of its bloom, and smothers it in thai
strange, deadly beauty, and the mighty Ceiba
yields its life to the miserable weed, and
stands gaunt skeleton, stripped of its glory,
for in the destruction of the tree the Jagua
too finds its death. England is that mighty
forest tree, with branches stretching from
ocean to ocean, and the splendid parasite
crushing and smothering the life out of it is
its aristocracy, Haunting abroad its brilliant
bloom, pressing the life out of thousands for
the sake of one, wasting the strength of the
people for the brilliant, graceful development
of the few. Culture and refinement gained
at such cost should be unequaled, for beneath
it there is death,-the tree is killed, and the
parasite falls with it. 1t is this proud aristoc-
racy, resting upon the oppressed people, that
looks askance at our republic, that stretches
out its hands to the slave-hoding south; the
prosperity of both is founded on oppression,
the root of slavery sustains both. and when
that root is killed in these United States, the
English root shall feel the shock, and rot
away. The heart of the English common
people is with us, their hope rests on our faith
full doing and the ''cry of the children" comes
family to us across the ocean, beseeching us
to stand firm, to lay the axe to the root of that
tree, for their and our salvation. English
power and southern haughtiness have forgot
ten that all men are brethren, have ignored
the kinsllip of the rich and great with These
poor, stunted, short-lived children of misery, ;
but we shall see the tragedy Of the Ceiba tree
acted over and over again in the nations til
the bitter root of death is killed and the PEG
pie rejoice in Liberty and Justice. have
said the common people are with us.
''Nor need we wonder, either, at the strong
friendship of the poorer classes in Englant
for the cause of the Union they comprehend
that the battle which is fighting out here be-
tween freedom and slavery will affect their
condition also. They feel and know that in
our struggle the supporters of liberty, equal.
ity, and the rights of man are arrayed agains
: the adherents of slavery, inequality, and tn
: rights ol masters and that wherever man op
E presses his fellows and grinds them into tn
i dust for his selfish benefit, there re s0uIu
svmnathizars will, Az nav { Kept in ignoranc
V and want not only their black slaves, but TN
:, poor whites whom the slave system robbed c
employment and of honorable equality"
And let us have care lest the cry of tn
children rises against US. In our cities ar
troops of poor, pale children, creatures of tn
streets and cutters, the wild Arabs of civiliza
ton, from whose ranks spring the mobs tina
strike a death blow at our institutions. LIE
justice be demanded for them. the right O
schools and work, the right of culture and de
velopment. In all our factories one may Sc
+ groups of pinched, pleading little faces, strik
ing us with the pain of lost childhood, thei
years made heavy with the cares of manhood
the light eXtinguished in their sad eyes Mer
cy and justice for these, we say, air and sun
| shine, and merry laughter, and childish Joys
| So shall our republic be strengthened, an
''liberty, fraternity, equality" grow with tn
growth of the generation, and strengthen wit
its strength. The root of slavery dies in tn
free, pure air, and the northern heart shall b
= sweetened, when, through doing justice,
. wins justice for the kindred peoples of all til
nations of the earth.
l The 'cry of the children rises like
warning from England's shores; and as w
. see their sad condition, and feel the bite
t curse this condition must bring upon the land
! as we lift up our hands in our own great con
test, and know it is not for ourselves alone
but for crushed and down-trodden humanity
we may say to England sadly and with pity
ing hearts -
well may the children weep before you,
Ihey are weary ere they
Iney nave never seen the sunshine, nor the glory
Which is brighter than the sun.
They know the grief of man, without his wsdom
They sink in mans despair, without his calm.
Are slaves, without the liberty in Christdom,
Are martyrs, by the pang, without the PALM
are worn, as If with age, yet unretrevingly
Inc harvest ofits memories cannot reap
Are orphans OF the earthly love and heavenly
Let them weep! let them weep"
They look up with their pale and sunken faces.
And their look is dread to see,
or they mind you of their angels in high places,
With eyes turned on Deity!
How long they say, how long o cruel nation
Will you stand, to move the world, on a child
heart
Stife down with nailed heel its palpitation
And tread onward to your throne amid the mart
Our Diood splashes upward, o gOld-heaper,
AND your purple shows your path!
but the chIid's sob in the silence curses deeper
Than the strong man in his wrathn
WE call attention to plan, published in tn
y paper of to-day, for putting fifty thousand col