Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-12-21
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SATURDAY sj,lIJI,il., ,1oR>,sc, DECEMBER is.lsos
SOUND WE'VE ).

SOUND VIEWS.
E,e,v ,,rc nu,ro, must admire tic following manly aud
sensible remarks Of The New York National Democrat Iha
uiy national organ OF the Democratic party takes az en-
arpcd and patriotic view OF The whole soun ana poufS
fire of ncritrd and reproot upon tue rhasaca
hv,ocres al the North who nceccting The miscrles Of
their own people turn all their philanthropy upon The
South who does not require their ocous netccss!9n bu
nothing that We can say, add point 10 the strong len
guagc of the Democrat Ii applies not only TO The sleek
families and "Yclabys Of the Morrill, but to those Kan"
hearted synpa-g noble ladies Q! England the Duchess
or Sutherland and Others who have jus, put forth cous
appeal TO the ladies' of the United States for The abolition
OF slavery cre-a The time forgetting the number
less melancholy evidences oil desltuon misery and crime
which surround them in every direction These hiiaathro.
pists al the North and England should know and rcmc-
Der that the Greeks their own door, Bu 10 the cX.
ccllcnt ar,l: from the National Democrat!
SLAVERY, NORTH AND SOUTH-Whilc we arc
moi Inc apolueisls Of slavery in any OF its mutarous
forms we canno. restrain contempt for those northern
fanatics who overlook the poverty ana
Injustice which lies heavily AT the door oil our Northern
civilization and Christianity and export all ther ply sym
pahy and prayers 10 the South 10 be expended upon "
nroes We of the North export much negro philanthropy
that we have charity left fur the tong, starving millions
of white craftsmen mothers and Children VINO almost VAIN
" beg the miserable pttance which keeps life IN teif bodies
from hour 10 hour The Northern aboonsi pays Inc poor
widow len cents piece for making shirts Tor his STORE ana
of such profits for her toll he knows that she must
port her HELPLESS children. She is probably member ic
same church where he worships God and calls m orolcf
ON the Lords day and all the time he secs her life wearing
away inch by inch her heart breaking day by day. While nc
is filing the whole land with uproar aud noise and stunning
the very OF heaven with his prayers ahou' 'e "oss
OF foreign negroes The foreign negroes are Sleek ana a,
ana hearty and as merry marriage hell while 'hs
poor northern SISTER of his is pale and wan and SO wretch
ed that she would fly TO the arms OF deati us oesShS put
for those half starved orphans OF hers Tor whose poor Ves
she compelled BY her brother 10 make shirts at ten cents
niece There is no such poverty and wrelccdnes as this
70 found among the slaves OF the South ah WIN M
nitev less ;mpudence and far greater show OF Christian
charity NAV The Southern planter overlooking inc SOCIAL
evils that congregate in his home, transport ms phia
opy 10 the North and repay the Northern fanatics IN 'he
own COIN He might say 10 him: L.,,
I YOU have eyes look upon The ssh you may Oe'ou
vision OF three millions of northern craiisnicn-wloSc
sweat and blood you daily coming INTO
tupethcr with their and children comiorcss sqai
ia ubodes rewarded only with and straw Tor ali Ihtif
toll. They wasted their strength TO build your man IN
their dumb agony and you look upon them and ptess
snarl tha, they are well oil as they can DC. 'ec M
lions! II is not many years, asyou are sIHs ~ IA bn,
COLL have lei millions of such wseched beings ana lcf
f, very vear-luwcr and still lower do they sink
through generation after generation oi poverty iG"oaI
ana Slcrnr towards that dead ite' where The soul Is
consumed and The brain ealen ou' un'l n"nS Is ICY n
The yoiceess anguish of the animal that snarts and
grUans beneath lis load lis is "hal 'he "o'Ae'' NC Gun
Ing TO there in your North.
1Our workers of the South know such poverty and
Indebtedness smes millions OF your poorer CLASS Inc
ra and bcrgnry which southern planter meets at every
corner in New York. disgnsts and pains hni ana Hrs
him with Indignation when, at The same tr nc thh" III
the amount impudencc and philanthropy when Is trans
pored 10 the negroes while such horTd anguish
eiires ecpens through every street and acy ol te
northern cities" :. :.
We saw ,ha, the southern planter may transport his phi.
apthropy and interference North, with IA much proprley
the NonELrner may send his South. Whatever may be
SAID OF slavery has the best Of H. Nor do we mes
itate 10 say thai tie free negroes oil me Norm, us ouy,
are far mar. rc,ced poor and vicious than the slaves vi
Son We do not here propose 10 enquire INTO me
causes o. lie inequality oil the circumstances OF mankind;
hut affirm that the inequalities, ana an the
mssries attending them great IL The NORM as III me
South. PhlIunlhrory transported from Tie SCUM 10 Inc
North legitimate business as that TatspIh i'"l
North the South Il Is not any more Oh Tie st"ic i
philanthropy that we prefer free il5Or Stare !Gbor. II
there is 10 cher c ment than that 81 philanthropy 10 ne
served then should God that tile southern negroes
may kept hcrc they and as they are athef t'h
tempt them hit ner and deepen the horrors OF north
I'm poverty which is the inevitable rcsG oil htingnH Hti
within that COMPETITION where ;hcy such Unequal COM
pclitors We here tn. North have sins enough oi our
10 spirit OF prayer and phllantioFhy
there be- midst And we arc iuInlated ny le
whatever degree transport these aoon
things, bregar home market and leave our own
classes pitch OF wrctcncdncss hunufcu ut@'
below the slave South. Let US be just al home rather
tun npruG abroad There are ten thousand
children day New York growing up IN ignorance di"
and crime. who might, by slight expenditure; DE- H
work they would earn least, sny Gems iay
Their aggregate wages would amount 10 nearly one mna
Of dollars Ysura which would DC more t!ih SUM
en 10 give them all blessings OF competence ard cGaa-
ton redeem them from The life oi inevitable: crime iha'
awaits There hundred other similar riS Tor
northern phlanthrnphy wuk in here al huh'i anu WI
Respectfully that while churches appoint prayer
meetings Tor The fat Jolly slave Of the South, lhcy forget
the thousands OF ponr wctchcd, and ignorant VINO
are perislng in hunger and crime at lirlr own door.