The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-07-10
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mean-spirited and the despicable aud we're
not so entirely in their power, Mr. Lind
say, could regard them with the proper
contempt. But the wretches can starve me
and my chidren-an1 they knoc it nor
does L mend the matter that / know in
turn what pitiful miserable, little creatures
they are. What care | for the butterflies
Of tonight y-they passed me without the
honor Of their notice and |, in turn, suf-
isred them 60 pass without the honor of
Izane and | am more han quits Do | not
know that they end | are going on to the
fulhlmeut OF our several des1nIes 2-they 10
sleep IN the obscuIty Of their native insig-
nlticance with the pismres and grasshop
7 pers " all the past, ana | to be Whatever
( the mill ous Of all my unborn counirymen
shall vet decide Pitful httl1 Insects n an
\ boz T what j. their notice To me But !
% heart, Mr. Lindsay, that can feel the
~ Of treatment so unworthy and must
~; tess Il moses me. One cannot always
hvA upon the future, divorced from the
sym Nsthies Of the present. Ore cannot al
ways sulace ones self under the grinding
despotlsm that wo-'i fetter ones very
thoughts, with the conviction, however as
sured, that posterity will do justice both 10
the oppressor and the oppressed am SICK
at heart a. d were 1t not for the poor little
things that nrpend 80 entIrey t1 RI, exer-
tlons, could as cheerfuIy lay II, down Ir
the grave ss ever dit in bed a 'er the IA
tIgues Of a long cay's labor II ven help
me am misvrably untitled struggle
with even the natural evils Of sSistence-
how much more SO when thes3 are puluphed
and exaggerated 5Y tie proud, Arcious
iRhumanity OF man ~
" There is a miserable lack OF r. " prin-
ciple and right feeling" salt, "atnonL our
upper classes IN the present day but aDas
for poor human nature II mas ever been n
and, am afraid, ever will And there "
quite as much Of It III savage as il civilizeI
life have seen the exclusive ar. stocratic
spirit, with rs one-,ided injustice, aS ram
pant ii a Wild isle of the Pacific a. ever
saw it is among ourselves"
"'Tis slight comfort, said nv friend with
a melancholy smIle, " to be assured. when
ones heart bleeds from the cruelty or inius-
tice Of our fellows, that man Il naturally
cruel and unjust, ana not less 80 - d saw
lge than when better taught. knew YOU.
A'r. Lindsay, when YOU were younger and
less fortunate but YOU have now reached
that middl- term Of lie when man naturally
takes up the Tory aai lays down the Wing;
nor Nas there been augnJ il your improving
circu n stances 70 Ietsrd the change ana "
you rest in the conclusion that, # the weak
among us suffer from the tyranny of the
strong, It's because human nature Il 50
constituted, aud the case therefore cannot be
bpelped"
Pardon me, Mr. Burns" said, " an
not quite so finished Tory as that amounts
to"
am not one Of those ianciiul declaim-
ers," he continued. " who set out on the
presumption that man is free born. am
too well assured Of the contrary. Man Il
not free born. The earlier period Of his ex-
Istence, whether a. puny child or the mi
Serabie denZen Of an uninformed and bar
barOus stale, IS one of vassalage and subser
viency. He is not born free, he is not born
rational, be is not born yirtuous he is Dor
to become all these And woe to the sophi st
who with arguments drawn from the ul-
confirmed constitution Of bis childhood.
would strive to rendgr his imperfect, because
immature, state Of puPiage, a permanent
one We are yet far below the level Of
which cur nature is capable, and possess n
consequence, but small portion Of the
liberty which It u the destiny Of our species
to enjoy. And tits time our masters should
be taught so. You will deem me a wild
Jacobin, Mr.. Lindsay but persecution has
Jue effect Of making a man extreme il these
matters. Do help me to curse the scoIn-
dreis my business is to act, not to
think ~
We we're silent for several minutes
have not vet thanked you Mr.. Burns.
] at length said, for the most exquisite
pleasure | ever enjoyed. You have been
my companion for the last eight years"
His countenance Frightened.
"Ah, here | am boring you with my
miseries and my ill-nature," he replied
" but you must come along with me anG see
the BARNS and Jean and some Of the best
songs ! ever wrote. 1t will go hard if we
bold not care AZ the stats end for at least
one evening. Hcu have not vet seen nv
stone punch bowl, nor my Tam O'Skanter,
nor hundred other fine things beside.
And yet, vile wretch that ! am, am some
times 50 unconscionabie as 70 be unhappy
w,h them all But come along"
We spent this evening together with as
much f happiness as it has ever been tnT
lot to ENJOY Never was there fonder "a
ther than Burns, a more attached husband,
or warmer friend. There was an exuber-
ance Of love in his large heart, that enc,rcled
n its flow, relatives, friends bis associates,
his country, the world and, in bis kinder
moods, the sympathetic influence which be
exerted over the hearts Of others seemed
magical. ] laughed and cried this evening
by turns | IVES conscious of wider and
warmer expansion Of feeling than | had ever
experienced before my very imagination
seemed invlgorated by breathing, as it were,
10 the same atmosphere with bis.
We parted early next morning-and when
| again visited Dumfres, ! went and went
over his grave Forty years have now pass
ed since nls death, and il that time many
poets have arisen t0 achieve a rapid and
brilliant celebrity but thpv seem the me
teors OF lower sky the flush passes has
uly from he expanse, and we see but one
great light looking steadily % as from above.
II ls Burns who il exclusively the poet Of
his country. Other writers inscribe their
names on the plaster which covers for the
time the outside structure Of society his is
engraved like that Of the Egyptian architect,
on the ever-duriDg granite within. The
fame OF sae others rises ana falls with the
uncertain unduatiOns on the mode on which
they have reared il his remains fixed and
permanent, as the human nature on which
il is based. Or, TO borrow the Sgures
johnson employs IN illustrating the unfluc-
tuating celebrity OF a scarcely greater poet
" The sand heaped by one food is scattered
by another, but the rock always remains in
ITS place. The stream Of time, which is
continually washing the dissalubIe fabrics Of
other poets, passes, without injury, by the
adamant Of Shakespeare"
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