The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform., October 28, 1853, Image 1

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VOLUME
. , Would YOU. : rO
1 ' Btt crowing on your knee, .''
- ) ; While jou iir,g iom little ditty, '
Pulli jour hair or lUunibi jour ' ee," j.j.
.' ' Would yon think it wain't pretty J , ,
l'.: . i. Tell me, could yon 1 ' t
.r ... : II you owned ;Uie UUy," would you t u
' "Wife, with arm about your neck,
i. 8aji you look just like the babyj "
.... . Wantt tome eaeh to make a "apec," ' 1
And you would reluae her may be t ;
' ' Could you t ahould you t
. If yon owned "the woman, would jroa t
' ' ' little labor, little trite, ' ',' ' ' '
1 Little care and little cot ; ''
, ; Would you iigh for aingle life t '
, Would you murmur at your lot 1 .
Tell me, ahould you ?
i If you owned "the cottage," would you 1
Health and comfort, children fair,
Wife to meet you at the door,
Fond hearta throbbing for you there; '
Tell me, would ynu aak for more ! ,
' Should you T could you t
If yon 'owned "the baby," weuld you t
'- ''' Prom or the Garland.
; KOTE-BOOKIKGS IN EUROPE.
BT E. B. H. LEVERING.
The Briilsh White Slaves, and Wilberforce
Rehnectine the Same. A Graphic Poem.
-' Lord Brougham and Cobbett. The con
dition of the English White Slaves Worse
than that of the American Black Slaves.
. . While touring throigh..Europer I
; mingled oftenest with the lower ranks
of society, especially in Great Britain,
remembering and knowing that wher
. ever those classes are prosperous and
i happy, the nation itself is right and
.' just at heart. With oiher unprfjudiced
' travelers, ot course L round tnem in
: a deplorable condition. But as I am
' a yankee author, and may be too free
''' in my remarks, I will commence this
No. with their own bona fide philan
thropist, Wilberforce, respecting the
. crime and consequences. He emphat
: ically says :
"As we hare been great in crime,
' let us be early in repentance. There
will be a day of retribution, wherein
-we shall have to give an account of
. all the talents, faculties and opportu-
nities which hare been intrusted to us.
Let it not then appear that our supe
. rior power has been employed to op
pose our fellow-creatures, and our su-
! perior light to darken the creation of
liod l"
One of her own Poets proclaims
the fact most energetically and truth
: fully
.. . The curse of the poor on England lies
Now and forevermore :
The curse of the beggar, who, starving, dies
In sight of the nobleman's palace door 1
And that curse one day will work its way :
Aod with many a groan,
- The H irlot of Nations, in scarlet arrayed,
' Shall die on her gilded throne 1"
I read ft graphic English poem de
. scribing Fate auctioneering off the
children of the lowest classes. Young
and sinless he otters them to the high
est bidder. 1 First Pestilence and Fam
! ine eagerly bid, saying that when they
get too numerous they will hide them
away in untimely graves. Beggarv
1 next, howling for his prey, bids furi
ously, exclaiming that he will teach
them a thousand lessons, viz.: to lie,
to sculk, to crawl, to whine and rot in
moral and physical putridity. Crime
CINCINNATI, FRIDAY,
rushes to the auctioneer, bidding high
er, supplicating to teach them sin in
all its grades, - . ' i ' :. v
; " TU1 they giow too old for pity, i .
k nA nu f... th !.. nl. l . i !
" v. . u .u B.uj i t ,
! Mr. Church - and State Religion,
passing accidentally, and hearing acci
dentally the uproar occasioned by the
sule, accidentally sympathises, and ac
cidentally says to the auctioneer that
he pities their condition, and will try
to raise the funds (in and out of Par
liament, ) to have them properly edu
cated for earth and heaven, but he is
interrupted by Mr. Dissenter rushing
toward him as if to break him down,
screaming loud enough for all the
world to hear, that he i a liar and
heretic, and shall not rain the chil
dren forever, saying that he will take
charge of their souls ; but his words
are more numerous than his deeds.
At this juncture, Mr.' No-Sect, a near
neighbor, more violent than either,
calling both anti-Christ and bigot, as
serts he can prove they wish to train
the little ones to be superstitious, and
nothing else ; but getting absorbed in
worldly speculations, torget entirely
the blooming angels. The increasing
hubbub wakes even the Lion from the
sleep of ages : and England, attracted
mostly by curiosity , .pompously enters
the rowd ; but the Poet may tell the
rest : ' r
"And England, sorely puzsled
To see such battle strong,
Exclaimed witb voice of pity :
' 0, friends, you do me wrong t
V cease your bitter wrangling,
For 'till you all agree,
I fear the little children
Will plague both you and me!' ,
But all refused to listen
Quoth they : ' We bide our time 1'
And the bidders seiz'd the children : -
Beggary, Filth and Crime :
And tbe prisons teemed with victims,
And the gallows rock'd on high,
And the thick abomination
Spread reeking through tbe rky !"
1 To carry out literary and philosoph
ical principles, Lord Brougham hoped
that the happy end would arrived in
the United Kingdom when every Eng
lishman could afford to read "Bacon,"
a work of note. Cobbett, unflinch
ingly the poor man's riend, said on
hearing that expression : "It would be
much more to the purpose if his lord
ship could use his influence to see that
every man in the kingdom could eat
Bacon!"
Ha 1 ha I (excuse me, for I cannot
avoid laughing.) The English, ridi
culing our country, some times ob
served to me, they hold (agreeing so
far with our Declaration of Independ
ence,) that every man, woman and
child has an "equal right to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness 1"
That is, every nobleman has a right
to hold a hundred thousand acres,
while another, not accidentally born a
nobleman, has a right to starve in a
wrong way without a shilling, a triple
chain of caste, money and race, bind
ing the latter to lower degradation
than that of the American black slave.
One can buy his freedom while the
British serf is hopelessly the bondman
of his employer, followed by a fugi
tive slave law, if he leaves his parish'
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OCTOBER 28, 1353.
to' seek! higher wages, bringing him
back as a vagrant, quenching the last
spark of honorable ambition which
lingeringly nickered in his breast 1
'' The English laborer or operative has
a right to spend his wages as he likes!
ne is lorcea to spenu mem in pun
chasing the necessaries of life, and if
not enough for that purpose, forced to
beg or steal to keep soul and body to
gether, ' The right is nominal where
the force is actual. Our slaves, at
the worst, get enough to eat, and their
filumpness generally shows that they
ive on "the fat ot the land." I never
heard of a slave mother in our South
committing infanticide to save the rest
of the family from starvation, an act
which almost daily occurs in the Uni
ted Kingdom (united by force of arms)
where mothers Eometimes put their
children to death to' get a few shillings
from a burial club. However, I must
say that Burking for that purpose sel
dom happens there I , : ,
Hal ha! what inconsistency Great
or Little Britain, emancipated else
where 800,000 slaves at a cost of
20,000,000., or about $100,000,000,
while, she does not give one shilling,
in many an hour of need, to save her
white slaves from death at the same
time, so arranging the payment of
that - 100,000,000, "that the ;-whit
slaves at home are degraded lower to
liquidate the debt j, I am neither in
favor of American nor British slavery;
but I must speak the truth, although
the heavens of contumely fall on my
head, and the hell of wrath rise to
scorch my feet ! I must say that our
Southerners (as a body,) are elevating
the negro in spite of slavery ; and
must observe that the British Govern
ment is degrading their white slaves
without it; and, as a national jury
pronouncing the famines, epidemics,
and Btarvaticn desolating Great Brit
ain, and especially Ireland, "a visita
tion of God," while they are proceed
ing from a double devil in the shape
ot Koyalty and JN obihty ! I must pro
claim the fact that the British Parlia
ment is insulting the common sense of
mankind by boasting of the West In
dian emancipation, and East Indian
Evangelization, while it is paupering
and enslaving, intellectually, spiritu
ally and physically its millions at
home. The Duchess of Sutherland
and the ''Barren of lntelh cC may have
"equal right" to hold a different opin
ion, but I know and feel that I .have
"equal right" with Jehovah and Christ
to . foster the truth and practically
spread it. -Lancaster,
Ohio.
We never knew a scolding person
that was ever able to govern a family.
What makes people scold 1 because
they cannot govern themselves, how
can they govern others,
Those who are in the habit of ma
king themselves "all honey," are very
apt to be troubled with flies. ' ; ' ,
..s'.'All "affectation .is the attempt of
poverty to appear rioh. . i r. iM ;
" True merit often finds its gold not
distinguished from baser metal.
CALEB ARK, Publhhm
r NO- 42 WHOLE NO. 94
The Bugle Sounds. ,
. The columns are moving. The
sound of energetic preparation, .al
ready comes from every quarter. "
; Tne State of New York will be the
theatre of one of the most determined
struggles ever yet known, between
Right and its "allied" enemy. ; The
result will tell more than any yet on
record. A rebuke will be administer
ed to demagogism which will never be
forgotten, and recreant Legislators
taught a lesson of popular will as
merited, as it will be sweeping. Men
who have sold humanity for a less
noble consideration than thjrty pieces
of silver, will be consigned to political
damnation beyond the power of re
demption. . Amen! .
That hanger on to party must have
a check who can say a , word in de
precation' of carrying the issue to the
polls. It has been carried there for
many a year. Hence the failure of
all our petitions for redress.
The Demon has grimly smiled in
the Capitol, and the prayers of fathers,
j .i j j i-ii
uuu wuuieia, wu wives ana cnuaren,
have beeannually spurned with taunts
and sneers. "
And do such men expect that the
people will always send them to the
Legislature, and then silently submit
to their bold and shameless ti eachery
to virtue, justice, Humanity and
Truth? This long forbearance has
already becc me a disgrace. Many a
good man was last year sent up by this
new element in our election. There
is its place at the, elections. Peti
tions such as ours would, in any other
country, have secured the object asked
for. We will not petition longer. Our
enemy has led the way to the foun
tain head of power the ballot box.
With God, Humpnity, and warm pray
ers with us, there we follow and " Qod
defend the Right."
The auguries are all favorable. The
great heart of the people is heaving up
into the light of the truth. Honest
men are casting off the bondage of
party slavery and marshaling for in
terests of as much more value than
those of pariy, as eternity is more than
time. The fall elections will be clean
of the usual catch-words of party ral
ly. The sublime and glorious issues
of the temperance reform will stand
out before the christian citizen. The
voter who loves family, country or
TT !n i e i J,
iieaveu, win ue ioudu in, pnaianz
against the black iniquity which has
so long and bitterly cursed us.
The red cross is speeding! and from
Niagara to the Ocean, answering
watchfires are lighting up. There is
a stirring among the people which
gives an earnest of triumph. The
ground telegraphs the mighty tread.
The Capitol will be reached with a
power more potent than hnmble pray
ers for relief.. Men who regard the
right shall be placed where cringing
rum slaves disgraced a great State and
injured and outraged a great people
Cayuga Chief. ' ; . y
A Drunkarb.-A blind man with
eyes; a cripple with legs on; an insult
to his Maker and a curse to his fellow.
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