"Is in its results everywhere the same. All the transactions and
communications between the richer and the poorer classes, have thus
substituted for them the sternness of official agency, in the room of
that kind and generous treatment which, let them meet unrestrained,
the more prosperous children of the same parent would in almost every
case pay to their less fortunate brothers. * * * Where the power of
sympathy has been altogether or nearly abolished among the different
ranks of society, one of the first effects appears in a yawning and
ever-widening gulf of poverty which gathers round its foundations. As
the lofty shore indicates the depth of the surrounding ocean, the
proud pinnacles of wealth in society are the indices of a
corresponding depression among the humbler ranks. The greatest misery
of man is ever the adjunct of his proudest splendour."

Such are the results everywhere of that system which looks to
converting England into a great workshop and confining the people of
all other nations to the labours of the field. In Jamaica, it
annihilated three-fifths of all the negroes imported, and it is now
rapidly driving the remainder into barbarism and ultimately to
annihilation. In the Southern States, it causes the export of men,
women, and children, and the breaking up of families. In India, it has
caused famines and pestilences, and is now establishing the slave
trade in a new form. In Ireland, it has in half a century carried the
people back to a condition worthy only of the darkest part of the
Middle Ages, and is now extirpating them from the land of their
fathers. In Scotland, it is rapidly dividing the population into two
parts--the master on one hand, and the slave on the other. How it has
operated, and is now operating, in England itself, we may how examine.