The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-09
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NO. We. THE GOLD MINES OF CALIFORNIA.
What connection there is between these two diff
ferent subjects, may appear in the sequel. BY the
accumulation of gold from the California mines,
the country will be enriched and the people en-
poverished or, what is the same, the rich will be-
richer and the poor poorer, or, what is still
the same, superabundance on the one side will pro-
duce abject want and misery on the other. This
will lead to enmity-to a conflict between the two
classes or, what is more probable, to a compro-
mise-and that compromise will be the Organi-
cation of Labor" which will make an end of the
bloody struggle between men, by creating a juste
nailieu, minimum, provision for LIES needs and
comforts; in one word, guaranty Of human rights
for all. To describe the manner how this will be
accomplished, is beyond the limits which are al
lowed to the writer, and, perhaps, beyond the
leisure which can be afforded by the reader but
to survey the steps by which we will arrive at that
epoch, is certainly within the practicability of
either; shall, therefore, confne myself to point
out these.
1t is evident that the diggers of gold never the
possessors of it., except for very short space Of
time and in very limited degree as little as we
see the diamond hunters adorned with diamonds
the divers and fishers of pearls covered with them
the makers OF crowns wearing them-or the build
ers of palaces to inhabit them-iust as little may
the owners thereof. The gold, therefore, by pro-
cess, which is too well known to need description
will find its way to its fellow gold in the Golfers Of
the rich From thence, will cause the sending out
of more gold diggers and conveyers of gold back to
the imprisoned despot. That despot, with the ac-
cumuated DUST will be enabled to buy the gold
land, the gold mines, and the gold miners-which
is precisely that state of things which | aimed to
show first: that is the rich will have become richer
and the poor poorer and the latter being baff1ed
again in their honest pursuit for competency, will
be driven to despair, and attempt to take back by
force what had been taken from them by legal
fraud. Now, that abundance, accumulated in the
hands of few, will create desire for its enjoy.
ment in some manner-but that kind of enjoyment
for which gold paid can only be created by gold,
or, in other words, the labor which the rich ex.
change for gold, must be worth gold but such
labor is not performed by bodily toil-by manual
drudgery-by isolated labor it is the product of
combined skill-of associated industry-of dill
gence united with scence--of genius guided by
wisdom; in other words, it is labor organized, in
which various faculties conspire to beautify and to
perfect and that organization only be perfected
by means corresponding with its vastness and far
comprehensive extent; and as our politicians have
found meansfor the organization of destructive labor
by which the root of evil has been won and the
Union brought to the verge of dissolution, it is
now the task enjoined on social reformers to devise
ways and means for the organization of constructive
labor by which the threatened evil may be averted,
the Union preserved, ard humanity be spared to
blush for her rebellious children.
CHRISTIAN BURGHALDER.