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Rh highest interests, and which must bring unavailing regrets in the future. They pay no attention to human misery. They ask not if there is any remedy. Freed from poverty themselves, they never reflect how horrible it is to wear out life in a continued combat with want and anxiety. Little do they think that perhaps with every thread of the gay habilaments which they wear, is interwoven the sigh and the tear of a human soul, and that on delicacies and comforts which surround them, are spent the life's energies and the vitality of exhausted bodies that suffer and die by inches. Yes, the means of enjoyment, the luxuries of the world, are produced amid sorrow and toil, and laden with woes a hundred fold greater than the delights which they give! The attention of the philanthropic, and of the political leaders, and of the influential in every department of society should be steadfastly turned to the relief of human misery. The condition of mankind demands, and demands urgently, alleviation, and emancipation from the terrible bondage of poverty and the burdens of everlasting toil. Their appeals go forth, sometimes in the stifled moans of hidden miseries, sometimes in the loud wails of desperate wo! Wars, revolutions and famine, stride alternately over nations, marking with characters of blood and devastation, the annals of our societies. This state of things must cease. It is not the destiny of man. It has not its origin in the perversity or depravity of human nature, so much as in a false system, or organization of society, which misemploys and misdirects all the elements of good in man,