The poor farmer, the wage-laborer, the common man, has not and cannot have any grip upon the soil, but must come into the world a slave, and go down to his grave after a life of toil and self-denial, a slave, with the tormenting consciousness that as he was, so must the unfortunate offspring of his loins be! If this be the tendency of organized society--if the tendency be to enslave mankind, place a premium upon human woe and crime--then organized society is organized robbery, and the savage state is preferable.

There is no appeal from this deduction.

What avail the triumphs of art, science and commerce, if the majority of mankind are ground to powder to make those triumphs possible! It is not the law of God, but the law of man, that produces these herculean evils which constantly threaten the peace and safety of society.
But the British land-owner, having enslaved the people of his own island, has shackled the people of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, doomed them and their posterity to be perpetual aliens in their native lands; he has, upon the plea of conquest, the argument of the base assassin and robber, reduced the people of India to a state worse than death; and his iron grip has been placed upon the uncounted millions of African soil; the Islands of the sea squirm in his grasp; the West India Islands are his prostrate prey; while a portion of the vast continent of America owns his sway and groans under his exactions.
But this is not all.

In our own country the British land shark has made his appearance.

His vile clutch, which our forefathers unwrenched in the strength of their Colonial greatness, has again been fastened upon our throat.