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Show called in question. never been them once more, but still We deal with " They rise again, ders 0 11 their crowns, '"Vith twenty mortal mur " Aud push us from our stools. atient : and give a moment more to But let us bo p f these o.natomies. W c are d. tion of one o tho 1ssec tb' day that there is 1 told even at ts ' perpetual Y . . es of Slavery : that . uliar in tho mtsen ' nothmg poe . er sha o, are found elsewhere, all its woes, m ev y P t te of poverty. The common to every s a. and arc ffor from want, from hunger poor always suffer-su b . 1 deprira· . d the clements, from p ystca. and tlnrst an . The suffer from ignorance, f very kmd. y tions o e , ha\e no advantages of l d moral. fhey manta an ulsion beneath 'fhe work under comp ' culture. y "t which cuts deeper . . lash of necesst y' the stmgmg . "t than tho overseer's into tho flesh and into the spm His lot for· . Tho poor man cannot marry. wh1p. h 0 He must \he human right of a om . bids him PAUPERISM AND SLAVERY. 165 often tcnr himself away from wifo and children for days :tnd weeks, perhaps for years. no must como to America, or go to C:tlifornia, or follow the scns. He groans under tho tyranny of the capi· talist or tho manufacturer's agent. He must go where ho can get employment. He must remain in tho service that gives him bread. He is chained by circumstances t.o a place or a master. In view of all this misery men say, Providence binds men to a servitude that is in every way as abject and terrible as tho Slavery of America. Why then mako this laat tho object of such especial condemnation? Why have so much to say about the black Slaves? Arc there not white Slaves in greater numbers and worse off? Are thoro not Slaves of Labor, and Slaves of Capital, aud Slaves of Mncbinery? Why single out the African for our peculiar commiseration ? Such is the argument. Let it bo fully understood. Let us not lessen its valuo by so much as a fenther's weight. Let us accept every statement of it from every side. Let |
