The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-03-31
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enough that it, literature should partaks Of ~
transmutation.
Business Tor Roebuck-Irish Lads saa
Engiish Lassss.
England is likely to have q new sensation
It Ia about to witness q return to the times
when every little free and easy throughout
the country rang with the songs Of promise.
whose burden was, Westward, hop songs q
" wasr. man is man. II be-. willing 70 toll, l
And the humbest may gather the fruits Of the son.
and when every social circle was charmed
with the musical announcement made by boys
and girls, men, maids and old women
10 the pleasant Ohio
My love and me will 90;
And Wen 81. along tue banks
VI the pleasant Ohio.
According to the news in another column, an
"agent from America" has made his appearance
in the factory towns of England. This circum-
stance is likely to alright the isle from its pro-
prety" more dreadfuly than Othello's "dread-
full belP' did an isle Of smaller dimensions and
less stamina. What does an agent from Anne
RIGA want in those happy factory towns a
uuppy Olu CuS lduu Ilc Wdutb Rkrh0t
America is apparently new Minotaur, and
she requires that England shall furnish to her .
tribute of buxom damsels. And very singu-
lar part Of the business is that this "agent
from America" who goes to England and asks
for girls to come to America, finds it very easy
to get them. "Not less than two hundred
blooming lasses," says the Oldham Chronicle,
Iaft NJ Ia
a large concourse Of friends and relatives were
assembled on the roadside, watching the merry
groups pass along to take their departure"
Here is depravty All the world knows that
England is the best governed country On
earth; that its people are the happiestpeopls
in existence, and that in its factory towns
want and misery are unknown, &C., &C., &C.;
and yet here are two hundred girls willing to
leave such a country and come to chase, cow
ardly and cruel" America to work in facto-
ries; and they are not only willing to leave
England for this, but they are deliberately de-
clared to be 'merry" on the day Of their de-
parture. Worse even than that, more wanted
to come than the agent could accept. Large
numbers of applicants were refused" And
thus is initiated stampede of English women
to the United States
Mr.. Roebuck made speech in the English
House Of Commons the other day which was
intended to be very severe against the United
States, and was horribly snubbed for it by Lord
Palmerston. Other secesh members of the
House Of Commemorative, though they stand in
Parliament as the representatives Of the Eng
lish people, are really the representatives Of
the confederacy, in the pay Of Davis-have
made the same speech before. Roebuck and
his secesh colleagues pretend to be alarmed at
the presence in Ireland of what they call re-
cruiting agents of the United States R0ebuck
is compelled to admit that there is only sus-
picion that the men who leave Ireland intend
to enter our army, and that the whole matter
upon which his speech was founded rested upon
no better authority than the statement Of the
London Times; but he touches that lightly.
Neither was it his cue TO consider that the peo-
pie of Ireland have been oppressed, beatsa
down aud ground to bone dust under the heel
Of England, and that this has made them ready,
man, woman and child to seize the first goden
opportunity TO better their condition in another
country Our war, that has taken million
men from the pursuits of civil life, has made
places and ademand for almost that many mon;
and, in obedience to the inevitable laws OF sup
ply and demand, men rush in from the over
crowded countries of Europe to fill these
places. We all know very well that not man
of these emigrants can be put in our armies II
it is not his choice to go in. We do not impress
men here, "a has always been done in England
in cases of great Necessity.
But it would not have answered the pur
pose of Rocbuck to show all this. He
wished to clamor against us in favor Of
the South, and did SO. But what will
he say now about these buxom lasses from
Newton and Faisworth? Here is another case
that evidently affects the position Of England.
Tbese women, it is said, are for the American
factories, and the men are said to be for Ameri-
can farms. May not both stories be falsei
Buxom damsels, from Belphebe down to vost-
vail, fight terribly when their blood is up.
England has paid pensions to English women
for their achievements in the ranks, and per-
haps the United States would like to do tho
scheme of the War Department to Gil up our
armies. Suppose they bring over fifty thou
sand English lasses, will not that absolutely in
sure an emigration of at least twenty thousand
stout English lads in love! Are not lovers pro-
verbally desperate, and will not the recruiting
sergeant be handy to take advantage Of any
paroxysm Of passion! This must be il, and
Roebuck ought certainly to look after that
"agent from America"
TIE ANGLo-DASrsH AND AMERICAN Nom
roRs-The latest news from the seat OF war in
Europe shows that the Monitor Rolf Krake.
built in England for the Danish navy, has been