The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-05
RELIEF FOR THE POOR OF THE NoRTHyp,
CITIES

helpiess restitution, and thousands have h
obliged to eat the bread of dependence. Chm
tan charity has done much, but not epouJ
Many theories, concerning the causes of the sot
fering, have been propounded, few practic,
remedies projected. The Projections VII,
traces all good to Tariff, and all evil TO FRI.
Trade, insists that the one thing necessary II
| Millennium is, Protection to Home Indusiry
But there is another kind of protection :,
home industry than that granted by Govern
ment, which has been suggested from dT-r
ent quarter. Southern philanthropsts have
not been needless spectators of the misers, o,
the poor in New York, and they have suggest
ed without formally proposing, remedy.
can hardly be said to be original for we reel
lect having read some years ago. in an G3
book, an deliberately minute plan. preparel
and proposed by Scotch theorist, for the p
lief OF the poor of Scotland, by comforting upa,
them the boon of Slavery, giving them the ben
eht of masters, who, as they could reap the
fruit of their earnings, would of course be in
PEELED, by self-interest, to keep them well irI
and conditioned. He did not confine himself
to suggestion, but he formally urged The
scheme, as one of great practical utility
Walter SCOTS romances, it must be admirtI
even with all the drawbacks of "hireling
civilization, are quite captivating hut had the
project of this learned Scotch Doctor been car
ried into effect, and the Dominic Sampson,
and Meg Merrilies been converted into slave.
how the power Of the great Wizard of The
North would have been intensified
To the editors of the NATIONAL Intelligence.
paper looked up to on account of its grca,
nationality, belongs the credit of reproducul
in an impressive form, the theory of the ph
lanthropic Scotchman. They do not, in 81
many words, recommend his scheme as the
true plan of relief for the poor of our Northern
cities, but they vehemently suggest it. In
long, carefully prepared notice on their elito
rial page, of new poem from Charleston,
S. C. press, on The Hreling and the Stare
preferred to in another article,) they commend
the representation and argument without STINT
fully endorsing the authors view of the suTe
riority of the slave over the hireling:
alt is divided into two parts the argumc'
of the first is to show that the state of the hire
ling and the slave is substantially the SANE
that is, that both are compelled to labor, and
that both receive the same reward for that Ia
bor-namely, subsistence. But there IS tbs
important difference bet'oeen the tlcO ciasse'
the hireliRg as not dtIcdyS able 10 procure he
labor lie seeks, nor 10 obtain the REGARD rbih
Il l.. n, Lf.L
subsistence ,chether he be IN condition 10 toll
for IL or not. So far, then. has lot is superior
TO that of the hireling; and this superiority
the consequence ofhis condition as stare; his
master being bound. not less By seifRter@i
than by the iacs Of his State, to proride for bn
wants, in sickness and IN health IN infancy
and old age"
Now, we are aware that our neighbOrs are
not inclined to propagandism of any sort, but
we submit whether, in case involving 50
much suffering as has been experienced By
the poor in Boston, New York, and Pha'
delphia, they should stop at hints, contentrs
themselves merely with "golden cadences ~
favor of the happy condition of the slave, CON
pared with the restitution and distress Of th'
Northern hireling? Is there no active, organ
zing benevolence in the South? Cannot they
devise some practical scheme for inducing ihr
unemployed and starving laborers and M
chanics of New York to sell themselves to
considerable Southern masters, in whose seli+n
terest they might find certain guaranty tor
employment and the rewards OF labor los
can any man with sane mind, out OF emPO'
ment, with his wife and children crying M
bread, help seeing that he and they would be
infinitely better off in cotton field with tle
certainty of plenty of work, under an oyerseeF'
every day, and the regular peck Of corn week
than in grooming for the necessaries of life, ma
state of Freedom The Lltelligencer should
devote itself to the task of educating "poor white
folk" out of their ridiculous prejudces about
being their own masters. Marriage is nothing
the Family is nothing-Educaton is nothing
Progress is nothing-Selfrespe is nothing
Preparation for Immortality is nothing TIE
one, grand idea Of Human Life is, to g5'
enough to eat and if this be more dliicu'
without master than with one, without
yoke, than with one, without Freedom than
with it, then God be praised for a master, Tor
yoke, for Slavery Let me be the welIie'
slave, giving of his abundance to the "star'ls
hireling." Well says the Bard of Slavery
"On upland slopes, with jungle lately spread
The iordly maize Uplifts its iasseed head.
BROAD. graceful leaves Of waving green appeal
And shining threads adOrn the swelling ear
The matchless whose milky stores impar
A feast that moe ks the dainiiest powers OF ART.
TO every taste, whose nper bounty yields
A grateful feast. amid a thousand helds
And sent on mercyS GRAND from the slave
To starving hirelings rescued from the grave
A few more poems in the style of Pope, NJ
H,telioencer, and the world will be convinced
hireling labor exploded, and the dark curse
of Poverty fade away amidst the millenn.a
glories of Slavery.
Mr.. CHANDLERs HUNBUG.-This goes dow
6rst-rate with the blinded party politician,
The National Era has published the farce o.
the entire speech, and has endorsed all ITS az
surdities and ant-Catholic contradictions. j.
Mr.. Bailey, the editor, continues to folio" On'
as strange things have happened as II ne WEI
to initiate Mr.. Chandler, go to Rome, aDJTWt'
Professionalism, swear to the creed OF rus
purgatory, ransubstantiation, and all, ana 'l,I
take in the new dogma of the Immaculate o."
ception.-W Western Christian Adrocdie'
Fudge Ed. Era.
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