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    • DEATH'S SNUGGERIES.
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      The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

      THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . "INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . "

      No. 67.] London, August 15, 1868. [Price...

      No . 67 . ] LONDON , AUGUST 15 , 1868 . [ Price Twopence .

      Death's Snuggeries.

      DEATH'S SNUGGERIES .

      Attention Has Been Once More Drawn To Th...

      Attention has been once more drawn to that fearful source of Hackney recentl physical y issued reveal and of moral the the same state corruption dreary of the , list overcrowding parishes of horrors of . St , which . Two James reports caused and every humane person such anxious sorrow some three or four years sances ago in , the when count first brought of Norfolk to li in ght the by columns the Inspector of-the of Times Nui- . ¦ We tr fear ¦ ¦ i that little has y been tried Vi ^ since bnpp that time bt thoug v h much ¦

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      for cuted his for own committing personal a profit nuisance , den ; s but where the man human who beings maintain are s , regard huddled to together disease , as and no indecency wild beasts , is ever allowed are , to with exercise a special his sacred right of property in perfect peace ; or at the worst can only be be granted indicted , cannot by such be a app tard lied y process , till many that bodies the remedy and souls , if have any been children destroyed bre h d V up ; and in as these for punishment hotbeds 1 V of , fever that is and reserved vice—for for VT ¦ the the

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      have reports listened , those to who the domestic have searched tragedies parish of such registers families , those , know who fevers what these , corruption statistics of mean the blood . They —they mean mean atrop a moral hy , consumption corruption , to so terrible name it that ; they the hardest mean the hearted destruction , the most of vicious —we will must not tremble say of of struction when every spoken tender comfort of every of association , every such humanising a hap place p which iness influence : ; they — Home for mean such , of can every words the worse ire gentle are mockeries than thoug mean de ht - , the every systematic tituuaub creation bi vuuuii of ui , j , & of ut beings for tui insp whom uuiii ; they the iuc words

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      ours This tales is no were exaggeration told in the ; columns years ago of , in the plainer Times language which should than surel , y have had a more durable effect than the , shudder that passed through all who read them . from Must their we , then monstrous , use a purel torpor y selfish those argument who permit before such we things can rouse to be 9 ^ B ^^ 1 — those P W T _ r ^ tff ^ BB * who V V anf ^ live 4 b W ^^ ^ on ^^^ th BjlAA . 6 ^ rents A ^^^^ ¦>* O ^ of ^^ JB > i such ^ Bfepflb ^^ Bl m p m- ^ ^ laces fe ^ iiW ^^ V HV ? V ¦ ¦¦ Let ^* W them » ^^ ^ v ^^— , V the ^^^ ^ r

      were owners to spring of such up property among , us consider , and these if any creatures tumult , decrep or revolution id with misery disease , were as they let may loose be in , but blind with fury hearts upon hardened us , what respect by vice would and they any of show us expect for the to meet purity at of their our h homes ands ? ? Of What course mercy , this could is an extravagant spectable , order supposition -loving Eng , —such land , a with thing its is institutions impossible and in re its - the excellent value— police , the & c , danger & c . ; but of History such blind , at least confidence ^»« , might . teach We are us

      B » A ¦ 4 ^ W 1 W B ^^^^ ¦ ¦ nay 1 . 1 V , m V ^^^^ I H I » ¦¦ ^ B > A , m ^^ ^ B ^ W * « BT dbMBB P * BT « 4 * . A * K - * B ^ ^^ __ - ~^ ^ pr ^ _ - ^ ^ FV * * ^ V ^ m ^ ^ pp place approaching , hithert times o a peaceful of great one excitement , but one — of a which revolution we cannot has taken yet know kindled the ; political full effect excitement . The fire will of reli run gious very animosities high in the has coming been of elections questions ; and on which with a the new two Parliament great armies will of come Labour the and discussion Capital will every meet reason face for to self face -restraint . In are such apt times to lose , when their those heads who , we have have outrage need % of every To what good good influence influence to keep VpV can the mob appeal from WVV > violence in creatures and

      fresh ^ yT | B > Bjp a "* W ^ Bk from ^ . BB » J ^ such BP * »¦ * «• W ^ den Bjp > « ^ ^^ s ^ as V ^ * 4 those A * * ^^ ^ BT ^ » ^ alluded pT ^^ VW «« you W to ^ P- ^ T » above <—w —» ^~* ? ^^ Surel ^ - ^ ^ ^ pr y ^—— ^ it ^ pP is heart our intere to raise st , if from not our degradation duty , to work and with brutality hand those and , head who and will furnish they are read incapable y instruments of feeling for , that but not mischievous incapable ambition of serving , which . hope But that this a , hig after her all one , is will a weak move and all men unworth to aid y . . ; in motive wiping ; let away us such a terrible disgrace on our nation as these Snuggeries of ^^ F JBJ D P *^^ BP eath ^¦ P'BJPW BJP 41 ^ . 9 Whatever W W MJI ^ VP ^ P W ^ Bp * ? ^ B ^ ^ W difficulties VpV ^ ^» ¦• ^ ^^ ^^» ^» ^ HI * ^ pr ^ PP be T ^^ ^^ ^ in ^™ ^™ the ^ w » i ^^ way « * - ^ — m cannot - ^^ h ¦ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ v ^ r be ^^^ ^^

      tion insurmountable to remove , if them there . be Every an body honest . who and owns sincere cottages determina can - j do much to render such a state of things impossible . Let an Act impossible be devised , by making , which it shall a misdemeanour render such overcrowded on the part houses of the landlord can decently who or lets healthfully any room accommodate to a family of ; more or on persons the part than of the it lodgers tenant who . A produces strict weekl such y inspection overcrowding of all by tenements wilfully taking under in a certain value would do much to check the evil , while the erection of lofty buildingssomewhat of the nature ¦— of barracksin

      overcrowded VA ^^ ^ A ^ p * ¦¦ Jb i ^ pB' jh Bjp w vm nei 0 « B > Brifli ghbourhoods « p >* dp > ab £ ^ % ^ " ^ , ^^ ¦¦ ^ " ^ * ^ PF * , would ^^ r ^ w ^^ ^ provide ^^^ ^ p- — — - — ^ — a — ^» - refuge - ^ - » r ^ ^ r ^*^ for ^ ^ r ^ ^ v those ^ - ^ , ^ — families and is required the evicted erection is the on of enforcement account suitable of houses overcrowding of cleanliness for their . among accommodation Above the all , poor what , especially in neighbourhoods where improvements have swept , be away obtained the humbler on the kind expenditure of habitations , and subscriptions . A moderate intended profit may to aid in doing honour to the dead might find a much worthier

      channel channel in in useful useful erections erections for for this this purpose DurDOse , , than than in in those those monstrous works of art (!) on which they are usually wasted . Surely a good man could wish for no nobler monument than that which helps to rescue the humblest of his fellow-creatures from misery and vice .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 15, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_15081868/page/1/