The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-28

hardly keeps pare with ia lia nb5s$ All eah
DOT ~ rich The rich ana 'hs p 'Hr cHAsige
pl sces URienet THAI where thss', are fixed here /
itary di>tinrtons; 40 often, I'll I the se!se o
IN security mikes every upr uihlppy; =" often
tn 1t We see men c;utclin, ut security ihrougf
mclnsof Ola FelIny ~, Te.I!persncs societies
&c which provide for members when sick, AND
far tle f,tnlIi = of dere sed IN MIXERS, 81 niten
that al most every State in the ulion h'S OF | H.
yelr, enacted lass, or connlerlnced deriSi n
giving more perm .nency To property. Il 't'lll-
and prlmnyenitnrc a. c as odipns In us ~ king
were I, tho K I'M ina; hut their object, 10 keep
property Ia our families. dear I" u. as tn
any people ~ earth, becan g We love our f.ni
lies "a mitch. Hence laws to exempt small
amounts Of personal property from liability Ia
debt, ARE daily enacted, aud hence lava or tis
consin has provision IN her constitution, iha,
the homestead Of some forty acres shall be ex
enpt from execution. Hence. also, the mighty
impulse of tt IL favor OF NO nan, rights Leg
i-lttures aud courts IRE virng with each other
which shall DO most u secure mlrriei womtn-
property to them The rnin "f 'ho,s,n Is of
families il the reynlsinn Of 1897 tau .i,. the ne
cesSltv at this new ~ &c q. OF eut Ill. this new
way Of keeping property in the f,miIv. The
up. ami downs If life became lop rapid to b..
agreeable to any who la property to lose. or n
ft nilv {" provide fur. WISH v. not yet quite
cooled down from the fsrvor of the rrv'i,it on
We have been boxing 10 one side only Of our
Institutions We begin to feel, however. thai
there is nno her and d rk side A side where
all are seen gong dhwh the hill Of fortune, LIT
~ look closely and frarIrssly ut this feature OF
free society, so much lau,le mn 40 little under
stood. What oijst mare audab!e, whit 70
dear to a mans heart. as to continue IL cOmpe
tency Of property, refinement Of mind md NOR
ais to his pos,e ity? What nobrr incentive to
virtuoua conduct. than the belief tint snch con-
duet will rebound to the advantage of our de
s:endnts? Whit ref ,ction 81 calculated to
make men reckless, wretched, and immoral, A.
the conviction that the means they employ to
improve the moral, mental, and pecuniary con-
diton of their Offspring, are, in this land of up.
and downs, the very means TO make them the
prey of the cunning, avaricious, and unprinci.
pied, who have been taught in the school of nd
versity and poverty! We constantly boast that
The wealthy and powerful Of to-day, nre the sons
Of the weak, ignorant, and destitute of yester-
day. lis the other side OF the picture that we
want moral courage to look at. We are deal
ing now with figures Of arithmetic, not Of rhet-
Orc. Those vino rise, pull down a class nu-
merous, and often more worthy than themselves,
to the abyss Of misery and pennry. Painful ~
it may be the reader shall look with me at this
dark side of the picture; he shall view the van
pushed as well as the vctors on this battle
ground of competition; he shall see those who
we're delicatey reared, taught no trirkS Of trade,
no shifts nf thrifty avarice, spnrned. insulted,
down trodden by the coarse and vulglr, whose
wits aud whose appetites had been shnrpened
bv necessity. If he can svmpathize with fallen
oil III ,.a h.,
nothing il this picture to admire.
The wide fields of the newly rich will cease
to excite pleasure in the contemplation, they
will look like Golgothas covered with human
bones. Their coarse and boiSterous joys while
they revel in their spoils will not help to relieve
the painful sympathies for their victims.
But these parvenns are men with all the feel
ings Of men. though somewhat blunted bv the
race for wealth; thsv love their children. and
von'd have them unlike themselves, m ,ral, re-
fined and edncated--ibove the necessities and
tricks Of their parents. They rear them "a gen.
'leme1. to become the victims in their turn of
he children of { lien gentlemen Of past gen
'r tion--ihes, latter having learned in the school
If adversely the PIT, Of fnrtnae. II IIe,yen'-
namc VIII is hnmln fp worth with snch pro-
poets ahead! Who would not rather liz down
4, di,.thnn exert himself to educate and make
tortnoes for their children. when he has reason
to fer that by so doinr he j. to heap Goals of
fire on the hetds. A nd vet this il an exact pie
tnre oFthe prospect which universal liberty hold
out to its votarips It il trne it hides with
veil the agonies of the vnnoni she'd and only en-
>ihits the vulgar mrth Of the vctnrs. We have
l'fed the veil In Boston. ctv famed for it
wealth and the prudence Gifts inhabitants, nine
ten'hs Of men in business fail In the slave
holding South. except in new seit ements, FIJI
nres are extremely rre; small properties de
scend from generation 10 generation in the same
family: there is much stability and perms-
nency of property as is compatible with energy
and activity in society fortunes are made rather
by vir'nnus industry th IN by tricks cunning and
sprcnlalions.
We have thus attempted to prove from theory
and from nctna experiment, that society Of
universal liberty and eqnatv il absurd and i'm
We have performed our task we
know. indilfrrentlv bnt hope have furnished
suggestions that may he proitably used by those
m ore accustomed to authorship
(To BE covcLUDFD)