The Portland daily press., 1865-02-06
The Laboring Glasses.

81 The hap0rlng uiassesss
Proc Fkwcett recently addressed the Work
ine.Men's Union at Brighton, England, and
spoke Of the importance Of the example ofour-
Country In elevating the laboring classes. As
we are in fair way to make slavery impossi-
-bieuuder our Constitution, the address of this
Professor of Political Economy acquires an
additional interest. He contrasts the iaporer
of England with what his condition wouio De-
~ he emigrates 10 America. He u not at all
frightened by the bugbears when some peo-
Gle have spoken of about our Country.
He yayy he does not believe in the tyranny
of the United States Government, but believes
America is essentially the home of the work.
inoman.l Here he can obtain abundance of
cheap land, meets with high remuneration of
labor, and is not compelled to pass life. Of
toll for wages which arc scarcely sufficient to
provide Aim With the bare neeessaries of life,
and when his strength is exhausted and his
vigor spent, all he has to come to is to be buff
feted about By relieving officers and to come as
asuppliant mendicant to claim parish relief.
The Professor bears down heavily on Eng
lish newspapers for their sneers at the people
OF the United States, especially since the peo-
pie of England are in such sad condition.
He says: W
We have seen in a neighboring island an ex-
odus of the laboring population. Sometimes
we hear it said that the Irish are an indolent,
unthrifty, and improvident people, Good God!
think that is fearful sentiment for any one
to utteri Cast daughter into the street, and
il she becomes an outeast OF society, repudiate
herl If you did this think you would be do
ing the same ungenerous thing that we do If
we call the Irish improvident and reckless
people who have been ruined by centuries of
misgovernment. Who are those people? What
is the miserable Tipperary laborer Pa being
more miserable than any which has ever ex-
isted In civilized country, being who is
starved into wretchedness. What Is he when
transferred to country where he can work
under different economic conditions? What
does he then become? He becomes the pio-
neer Of civilization in the Far West; he be-
comes the man who has raised UP mighty cities
In short period he becomes the man of econ
omy-thrifty and provident. And these men
who were denounced as born TO be indolent
and improvident, they are people who, In
few years, have sent hundreds of thousands of
pounds home to their miserable friends and
relations whom they have left behind, entreat-
ing them and providing them with the means
TO come out and enjoy the Julness ofprosperi-
ty under which they are thLiving. loud
cheers
There has been mighty exodus of Ireland;
there has been nothing like it since the exo-
dus we read of in Holy Writ. So great has
been the emigration that in the United King
dom population is absolutely stationary. He
thinks years ago emigration was good thing
for England, for it took away . surplus popu-
lation that has furnished the old country with
cheap food, but now emigration has assumed
different aspect.
He would now put stop to such an EXC
dus, for it does not take the indolent and i'm
provident, but the energetic and Intelligent
And he fears it will take the flower and the
elite ofthe working classes in England. This
is the danger he foresees, and would guard
against it. And II the English working men
are not made more comfortable and their ed
ucation improved, emigration viii be greatly
stimulated with force that nothing can re-
sist. They toll ON in the Old Country and
have no opportunity for physical comfort or
intellectual Improvement. In eloquent strains
the Professor exclaims:
Again, look at this fact, too. What can be
more beautiful than this world? What can
be more beautiful than the splendor which ma
ture has showered CD this earth of ours? Yet
how many there are who pass away who have
never had the opportunity OF seeing those
beauties? How many tens ofthousands there
are who pass away and have never seen the
glorious beauties Of the sea! How many there
are who have never seen the rising or the set
ting sun gliding mountain pass? How
many there are who know not the joyous open
ing OF spring; who know not the summer
bloom In the forest; who know not the ripen-
ing beauty OF autumnl r
True every word oft. and as soon as our
war is over and no footprint Of the slave shall
be seen on our soil, thousands upon thousands
will flock to this county and supply the place
of those who have fallen In battle. They will
eat the food they raise, see "the sun gid a
mountain pass, witness the glorious beauties
Of the sea-" and stretch their eyes across our
rich praries where oceans of grain will greet
their sight.
Not only will the Great West receive and
support them in peace and comfort, but the
South will be dotted all over with beautiful
farms, taking the place In many ins tances. OF
overyrown and WORKOUT plantations, and fur
nishing happy homes for myriads of families.
Our brave soldiers too, who have fought the
battles offreedom and lived to see the chains
broken and torn from the limbs Of every slave,
will mingle with the better class of the emil
grants and make paradise of the South.-
What an opening our country win soon pre-
sent to all who are willing to work. There
are no material riches in this world except
those that come from productive industry
The working classes make the wealth of a ma
ton.
II - g.. s.-~ Is sfWeariness
Can tnors upon the flint, when FESTIVE sloth
Finds the down pillow hard -
INTERESTING OCCASION AT YARMOUTH