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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... 11. The Rev. Mr. Osborne, a Clergyman of the Established Church, in a letter to the London Times, says, "the exodus of the Irish is caused by the cruelty of the landlords. Their evictions make the starving homeless." In converting small farms into sheep walks in Scotland, the house of Southerland has been conspicuous. This system has had the most pernicious influence on the labouring people of Scotland. It has demoralized the peasantry. It removes the labourers from the restraint of home, collects them in boothies or barracks, and initiates them in every species of vice. Hugh Miller, in his charming autobiography, gives a deplorable account of the demoralization of the Scotch labourers in the last fifty years. 12. "They (the Exeter Hall philanthropists) would save the Sarawak cut throats with their poisoned spears, but they ignore the thirty thousand needle women, the three million paupers, and the Connaught potential cannibalism." [carlyle. 13. The Abolition party hire spies or agents to report every thing in accordance with their own wishes and prejudices. They exaggerate facts, receive tales and rumours for truth, describe isolated abuses as the ordinary condition of Slavery--this they must do, to be deemed trust-worthy by their employers, and to earn their living. One of these absurd stories--lately revived by the Westminster Review--asserts that, in Jamaica, on a single plantation, there had been seventy deaths from violence for six from natural causes. See what Lewis says of the same people; "I never saw people look more happy, in my life, and I believe their condition to be more comfortable than that of the labourers of Great Britain." 14. The philanthropic labours of England have converted efficient slaves into worthless...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230294465
- ISBN 13 9781230294469
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages26
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