Such, as it appears to me, is the present condition of the Factory Question: and although I am conscious that it requires but an inferior understanding to perceive an existing evil, while the combined efforts of many superior minds are necessary to its remedy yet I cannot but think it is incumbent on all who feel, as I do, that there is an evil which it behoves Christian lawgivers to remove, –to endeavour to obtain such a portion of public attention as may be granted to the expression of their conviction. Interest are so numerous, that many questions which affect the lives and happiness of hundreds, become, as it were, comparatively unimportant and are thrust aside by others of greater actual moment. It is the misfortune of the time, that subjects of great and pressing My Lord, I confess myself anxious to be heard, even though unable to convince. Yet as poetry is the language of feeling, it should be the language of the multitude since all men can feel, while comparatively few can reason acutely, and still fewer reduce their reasoning theories to practicable schemes of improvement. It is the conviction of this, and the belief, that to abstain from giving our views on any point because we fearĭue attention will not be paid us, savours rather of vanity than humility, which have induced me to intrude at this time on your Lordship and the Public.įor the mode in which I have done so, some apology is perhaps necessary since the application of serious poetry to the passing events of the day has fallen into disuse, and is, if not absolutely contemned, at least much discouraged.ĭoubtless there are those to whose tastes and understandings, dry and forcible arguments are more welcome than reasonings dressed in the garb of poetry. To the just-minded, the opinions of no individual, however obscure, should be utterly indifferent since each man undoubtedly represents the opinions of a certain number of his fellow-men. We admit, however, that the case of CHILDREN employed in the Cotton Factories is one of those that call fairly for legislative regulation.ĪN anonymous Author, whose own name could give no importance to this ephemeral production, ventures to claim the aid of yours as one not only noble, but intimately connected with the subject of his verse. The abuses even, of such a business, must be cautiously dealt with lest, in eradicating them, we shake or disorder the whole fabric. A Celebration of Women Writers A Voice from the Factories.
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