The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-16
EXTRAORDINARY SCENES IN NEW
YORK.

YORK. .-..
Never was such state of things witnessed
in New York rs Mt this time. A gentleman
Of Richmond, Va, who has just returned
from the great metropolis OF the Empire
State. says that the vast multitude of unem
ployed workmen and laborers of that city
stimulated by the agrarian doctrines which
their Oratars PROFOUND, are holding the whole
population of New York, who possess any.
thing, in absolute fear and dread of them
Many of the wealthy people are in such ter.
ror of an attack, that they employ guards in
their houses to protect them and their prop
erty in case of an outbreak. Many of the
large stores 1--WE suppose the provision
stores) are guarded in like manner. Other
and extraordinary means are adopted to con-
ciliate the excited and embittered multitude.
Several gentlemen, among them Stuart
of the Marble Palace, and German gentle
man, Mr.. Lindenmuller, have each establish
lished private soup houses, I" stop the fierce
! anu luUHTl inOutuo WHICH Ch'ihoi"5 ""
every side. 1t is said that Stuart supplies
food to as many as a hundred persons day.
The rich of New York are contributing free
ly, and money, they say, flows like WATER
Go into close and hard.hea Wall street,
and ask for money for tho poor, and the
strong box opens as if by magic, and out
cones the gold with perfect rush. But the
dispensation Of bounty in New York, as in
France in the reign of Louis XVI, only in
creases the number of applicants. There,
as in Paris, the furnished crowd of the city
is increased by additions from the provinces,
and the poor indoent of other cities are hur-
rying to New York to join the multitude
which is fed there without labor.
1t is said that such opportunities of EN-
ploymcnt rs are presented are not embraced
by these men. An instance is mentioned
where five hundred men were offered work
at distance of sixty miles from New York,
at Il dollar and half day, and no one ac-
cepted the offer. The determination seems
to be that they will make the rich men sup
port them.
Our informant witnessed some demonstra-
tons of this Red Republican spirit. Fre-
quently little crowds of the unemployed
gather at one point in the streets and are adj
dressed by one Of their orators. Our friend
was looking at one of these crowds when
gentleman drove by in a splendid equippage,
who had formerly been halter and had re-
tired from business. The orator immediate
" called attention to this person: "Look at
that hatter," he said, she has grown rich, not
on his own labor, but on the daily labor of
you iourneymrn hatters; and whilst you have
made his fortune, you are poor and in want
Of bread, and he is living in ease, riding
along in his splendid carriage and don't care
II d---n for you" Then he pointed the
gaping crowd to splendid brown free
stone house "Look at that brown stone
house," he exclaimed, "the man who lives in
it never worked day in his life. You built
it for him, and he is rolling in luxury in it,
whilst you, who built 1t for him, are in pov.
erty and want" Such are the doctrines
which are daily sounded in hundred thou
sand ears in the city of New York.
One orator boldly proclaimed that the
property of the community ought to be Ia.
ken and equally divided among the people,
The next day an Irish friend of the orator
met him and congratulated him on his speech.
"Ah," says Pat, sand that was the true doe
trne you gave us last night" "But, Pat"
said the orator, "since have reflected more
on the subject, think perhaps went too
far. For if the property was equally dis.
tributed, there are lazy people who would
not work, and who would spend their money
foolishly and between the Incidence of some,
the folly of others, and the overreachng of
rascals, things would soon get back to their
present situation. And what would we do
them" snake another distribution" shout |
ed Pat, with an oath.
What makes the matter worse in New
York is that the large charities which are now
given to propitiate the multitude, will soon
come to be considered MS right, so that if
they should be withheld or even diminished
there will be danger of riot.
The people of New York may thank the
Red Republicans and some native dema-
gogues, and fanatics, among them the N. Y.
Tribune, for the present state of things
We trust it will open their eyes to the fact
that their boasted free system is not without
its evils, nor slave institutions without their
advantages.
s19s- We learn from the St. Paul's Min
nesoiian, of the 10th ult, that n man by the
name of Collins, an auctioneer Of ST. Paul's,