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son , it follows that the rest are unjustly doomed to poverty , or ( the more frequent alternative ) are thrown upon the public purse for sustenance , or rather for plunder , extorted from the real industry of the country ;—( thus , in its turn , farther cramped to preserve the opulence of the first-born uninjured , ) under the pitiful pretext of sinecure offices and unnecessary establishments .
Surely the fitting source of support to the children , whom Primogeniture beggars , would be in the means and natural assistance of the eldest brother : —no such thing ; Aristocrac y '—as Tom Paine quaintly and justly says , — ' has never mare than one child ;' —the heir fully impressed with the sacred obligation of this dogma , exerts only his hereditary power of forcing the people to
father his disowned brethren . This is a subject which is capable of infinitely more detailed developeroent—wheel plays into wheel —and it would not be difficult to prove every serious evil , under which this country labours , to have its root in this one gigantic curse ; spreading demoralization through the land , enrichino-a
foreign market to the impoverishment of our own—creating an excess of indigence unparalleled among the lower orders of any other country , and perpetuating , together with the almses of corrupt government , an aristocracy which honest men politically hate , and personally despise . C . C . P .
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The Poop Wematf * Appeal to her Hu&mid . 351
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You took me , Colin , when a girl , unto your home and heart , To bear in all your after fate a fond and faithful part ; And tell me , have I ever tried that duty to forego—Or pin'd there was not joy for me , when you were sunk in woe ? No—J would rather share your grief than any other ' s glee . For though you ' re nothing to the world , 'you ' re all the world to me ;
You make a palace of my ahed—this rough-hewn bench a throne—There ' s sunlight for me in your smile , and music in your tone . I look upon you when you sleep , my eyes with tears grow dim , I cry * O Parent of the poor , look down from Heaven on him : Behold him toil from day to day exhausting strength and soul—Look down with mercy on him , Lord , for thou canst make him whole !*
And when at last relieving sleep has on my eyelids smil'd , How oft are they forbade to close in slumber , by my child ; I take the little murmurer , that spoils my span of rest , And feel it is a part of thee 1 lull upon my breast . There ' s only one return I crave , —1 may not need it long , And it may soothe thee when I ' m where the wretched feel no wrong ! I ask not tor a kinder tone—for thou wert ever kind ;
I ask not for less frugal fare—ray fate I do nol mind ; I ask not for more gay attire—if such at I have got Suffice to make me fair to thee , for jnois I murmur not : But I would ask 8 < k »« share ofliQurs that you at clubs bestow—Of knowledge that you prize so much , may / not something know I
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THE POOR WOMAN'S APPEAL TO HER HUSBAND .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/39/
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