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We are advancing, I admit, but I think we shall always be willing to leave the financial basis to your down-trodden sex." "It is very kind of you to be interested in these poor people," began Cornish; but Mrs. Vansittart interrupted him vivaciously. "Poor people? Gott bewahre!" she cried. "Did you think I meant the workers? Oh no! I am not interested in them.
During this period the evil effects of the Navigation Acts were felt most acutely in the colony, robbing the planters of the profit of their tobacco and causing suffering and discontent. This period ends with Bacon's Rebellion, when the down-trodden commons of the colony rushed to arms, striking out blindly against their oppressors, and bringing fire and sword to all parts of Virginia.
They had been systematically down-trodden and ill-treated from the commencement of the voyage; their lives had been made a burden to them; and now having at last been provoked into the throwing off of their yoke of insupportable bondage they thirsted for revenge upon the authors of their miseries.
In Humanity, as in Christ Jesus, as Paul says, 'there is neither Jew nor Greek. And there ought to be none. Let Humanity be reverenced with the tenderest devotion; suffering, discouraged, down-trodden, hard-handed, haggard-eyed, care-worn mankind! Let these be regarded a little. Would to God I could alleviate all their sorrows, and leave them a chance to laugh! They are, miserable now.
The immense plain was covered far and wide with piles of corpses; rivulets of blood intersected the down-trodden soil; fragments of wagons, cannon, and vast heaps of horses, lay in wild disorder, and all around the horizon gleamed the dying fires of upward of twenty villages. Blucher cast a mournful look on this harrowing spectacle.
The intimacy, then, between Big Tom and Nick, is now accounted for in a satisfactory manner; and thus it was, that whenever the young soldier got leave to spend a night out of the Fort, he invariably took up his quarters at the sign of the Harp, where he not only knew he was welcome on his own account, but was sure to find company that was agreeable to him, and sympathized with all his aspirations in relation to his poor, down-trodden country.
"You know, then, I am of Spanish blood, and that, what was my adopted country, our motto was, 'God and Liberty. It was of you, sir, the great Emancipator, the apostle of that Liberty, the friend of the down-trodden and oppressed, that I, as a child, first knew. In the histories of this great country I have read of you, I have learned your orations.
Here is the deep-laid cause of sympathy. Here is the secret spring of that wide effort, which the whole world is now making for the happiness and good of the race. I thank you for what you have done in this noble work. I had heard with the sincerest pleasure, of your labors for the down-trodden and the poor. God bless you for these labors of love!
He had been reading long articles in the newspapers denouncing Senators and Representatives who wished to restrict immigration. He had seen glowing accounts of the value of strong workers for the development of the country's enterprise, of the duty of Americans to open their national portal to the down-trodden of other lands, no matter how ignorant or poverty-stricken.
To recover this constitution, to lift up these down-trodden rights, he set before them most vividly the necessity of union, "'Tis impossible," he said, "that a chariot should move evenly having its wheels unequally proportioned; and so must a confederation be broken to pieces, if there be not an equal obligation on all to tend to a common purpose."
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