Plainly I let you k,and all the world and the worlds k,that I for my part mean it so.as glorious unfortunate sons of freedom,but as recognized captives,as unfortunate fallen brothers requiring that I should command you,and if need were,control and compel you,can there henceforth be a relation between us.Ask me for Indian meal;you shall be compelled to earn it first;k that on other terms I will give you any.Before Heaven and Earth,and God the Maker of us all,Ideclare it is a scandal to see such a life kept in you,by the sweat and heart's-blood of your brothers;and that,if we can mend it,death were preferable!Go to,we must get out of this--unutterable coil of senses,constitutional,philanthropical,&c.,in which (surely without mutual hatred,if with less of 'love'than is supposed)we are all strangling one aher!Your want of wants,I say,is that you be commanded in this world,being able to command yourselves.K therefore that it shall be so with you.adism,I give you ice,has ended;needful permanency,soldier-like obedience,and the opportunity and the necessity of hard steady labor for your living,have begun.K that the Idle Workhouse is shut against you henceforth;you can enter there at will,leave at will;you shall enter a quite other Refuge,under conditions strict as soldiering,and leave till I have done with you.
He that prefers the glorious (or perhaps even the rebellious in glorious)'career of freedom,'let him prove that he can travel there,and be the master of himself;and right good speed to him.He who has proved that he can travel there or be the master of himself,--let him,in the name of all the gods,become a servant,and accept the just rules of servitude!
"Arise,enlist in my Irish,my Scotch and English 'Regiments of the New Era,'--which I have been concocting,day and night,during these three Grouse-seasons (taking earnest incessant counsel,with all manner of Industrial abilities and men of insight,on the matter),and have brought to a kind of preparation for incipiency,thank Heaven!Enlist there,ye poor wandering banditti;obey,work,suffer,abstain,as all of us have had to do:so shall you be useful in God's creation,so shall you be helped to gain a manful living for yourselves;otherwise than so.Industrial Regiments [Here numerous persons,with big wigs many of them,and austere aspect,whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science,start up in an agitated vehement manner:but the Premier resolutely beckons them down again ]--Regiments to fight the French or others,who are peaceable egh towards us;but to fight the Bogs and Wildernesses at home and abroad,and to chain the Devils of the Pit which are walking too openly among us.
"Work,for you?Work,surely,is quite undiscoverable in an Earth so wide as ours,if we will take the right methods for it!