Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-07-28

Try; the rich and the peor the nigh and the low.
] 1t is therefore wrong reconsider as such mere
! ~ the artisans and manual laborers-to repre-
sent their lot as exclusively that VI the children
Of Eve, who were ito gain their subsistence by
the sweat Of the brow--,o treat them as subject
to special hardships and grievances
The Workiag Glasses, SO called. IN the large
cities and towns, though the most numerous there.
bear but small proportion TO the agricultural
population of the country, all operatives: The
husbandmen, the clearers and hlers OF the SOIL,
do not appear to be conscious OF suffering any IN
equality. disadvantage or wrong from our present
social order and institutions They are content
with equal political and civil rights. full elective
franchise; constant employment, plentiful and
palatable nourishment, and the opportunity OF
providing for old age The word peasaatry can
not be applied in this republic, IN the latitude OF
the European acceptation.
The Uorking Glasses. whether IN town or
country, are comparatively poor. only because
they are numerous Considering the means
which they generally possess. and their numbers,
distribution of the property of the Rich, among
the whole, would add very little indeed to the
comforts or substance Of each individual or family,
Nearly all the rich in the United States have
been the architects Of their own fortunes. No
where else. in no age,-have SO many OF the
working classes attained to wealth and disttnc-
ton, Or competency ard ease. The tables OF the
rich are not usually better provided than those
Of other citizens; they have, indeed, more cares,
more maadies, more artificial wants, and often
less independence; they have no political pre-.
negatives, no particular politicfl influences 1t is
not they who are .'the great and the POWERFUL
If these epithets are opposite at ALT is to
the majority. the working classes, or them who
coDtrive to direct the latter.
1t has been remarked by an eminent political
writer. that all classes and descriptions of the
rich, in Europe even, are the pensioners Of the
poor; are under an indefeasible dependence on
those who labour, and whose trustees they are.
Few men hoard in our country; whoever spends
his income. gives it in exchange for the labour of
the working classes; what may be boarded is f.
nally so distributed by will. inheritance, or casu.
atty. that it, too, returns to the hands whence it
came.
1t is manifestly the interest of the rich that the
working classes should thrive: their property be-
comes more valuable and more secure by the pros
perity of the latter;-many domestic and persO-
nal cOnveniences accrue to them from the same
cause:-it is only in Furnishing community that
money and weight can properly be enjoyed
All attempts to seperate the working classes from
the other denominations, and to form them inc an
adverse or jealous body, should be deemed sus-
picious or mischievous, as tending to weaken or
destroy mutualties, interests, and sympathies
which are Important or indispensable fofthe COM
mon welfare,
Foreigners celebrate the multitude and eficien-
cy of the charitable institutions in the cities Of
New York and Philadelphia for exampe:-proof
that those who possess property do not neglect
the mdEent'and unfortunate. II is the accumu-
lation " means in the hands Of individuals that
extends and beauties our cities; builds houses;
tabehes manufactures; supplies the materials Of
trade, domestic and foreign; employs mechanics
AMI laborers.-in short, makes Philadelphia, or
anew York.
| I An outcry is raised against Banking, and par.
iticularly the rank of the United States. But
the Working classes have access to all, and have
Z their own institutions Of the kind. 10 no other
description of citizens is a sound currency more
needful. and for that the National Bank is essen
tial. Who does not recolect how they were
paid for their labor during the Pagocracy-when
the State Banks had stopped specie payments
A currency wholly metallic is impracticable or
unattainable, and far from being desirable. in the
United States. In general. our currency is now
the best in the world-The working Glasses do
avail themselves of the system of Bank credit
they enlarge their own enterprises and stock by
1t; 1t enables those who give them employment to
widen the sphere of their operations and increase
their productive capitals: it constitutes in fact
universal benefit, and kept under wise manage
ment and due restraint, contributes mainly to
the astonishing development and progress which
we see IA almost every part Of the middle, east
| ern and western States.
sef3eaes-
Extract Of a letter to the ~. Y. Enquirer, dated
SALEM, 2lst July, 1880.
"a prodigious sensation is created in this town
by the proceedings in the trial against the muir
derels of the late Captain White. The suicide Of
Richard Crowninsh;cId, had thrown all the
former proceedings into confusion, as respects
the law affecting the relations of principal and ac
cessary. You have seen the proceedings Of the
court during the FIRST day
YESTERDAY and to-day the Grand Jury has
been busily engaged in finding new sect of in
dictments. Public feeling in these regions is
very much against the accused. and particularly
one of the Knapps, he who made the confession
against Crowninshied. He was Yesterday car