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which had brought death to their comrades. Women 

 were on their knees imploring information as to their 

 husbands or sons. No news had come up out of the 

 surly deep. The ship had gone out overloaded or 

 unseaworthy. Some conscientious New York gov- 

 ernmental official had given her the usual certificate 

 that she was fit to go to sea; and she went to the 

 bottom. Nevertheless, there stood these working- 

 men, and wives were on their knees weeping for dead 

 workingmen ; but the men said, with hat in hand, 

 " Is there any ship going pretty soon to Brazil to 

 build a railroad? Very glad to be passengers. Is 

 there a little work ? " Why, there are conscientious- 

 ness, and often unfathomed tenderness, heroism, and 

 nobleness, among the poor ; and if you will only 

 trust these traits, if you will give the churches among 

 them a start, if you will stand by the half-starved 

 men that are doing something for them, you will 

 have a blessing from above; but otherwise, a curse. 

 [Applause.] 



The flag carried even in Boston lately, above the 

 heads of five thousand people, with the motto on it, 

 " Hunger knows no law," is likely to be seen again 

 in America. Until you raise against that ill-omened 

 ensign precisely the Biblical idea of going from 

 house to house doing good, with the purpose of mak- 

 ing the masses Christian, God only knows whether 

 the black flag will not ultimately give us permanent 

 trouble in every municipality governed by universal 

 suffrage. We must listen to Chalmers, and to Prince 

 Albert and George Peabody, and to Tiberius Grac- 



