The Times 1831 - 1840 21 Nov 1836 Protest Against New Poor Law

21 Nov 1836 Protest Against New Poor Law

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Moresby, on Friday last, to take into their consideration the introduction of the New Poor Law into the parish, a strong protest against it was unanimously adopted, in which they particularly deprecate the practice of withholding all out-door relief, and shutting up the purely unfortunate in a prison, and pointing out the impolicy of the proceeding by the following case: - A man and his family are taken into the workhouse from want; their home is broken up, and the whole burden of their maintenance thrown on the parish; work presents itself, but cannot be taken because their cottage is gone, and the wretched family, who would have thriven on till they could get employment on a trifle of occasional relief, are thus made, from utter despair, perpetual paupers. The memorial also strongly deprecated the inhuman practice of punishing the victim of the seducer by throwing the maintenance of her offspring upon herself, and the separation of parents and children, and of man and wife. - Cumberland Packet.

 

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