The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-02-08
FRO RE cosrIsuED.l
SOCIOLOGY FOR THE SOUTH, OR THE FAILURE
OF FREE SOCIETY
BY GEORGE FITzHuGH.

oressye age who have not violated the excellent rule of
Dr. Quincy to write thing unless you positively
add something the existing stock Of knowledge This
little book is not an elaborate treatise but
take 1t up and read page without meeting with more
original and suggespe ideas than he gathered from
volumes of common books. This sketch mere outline
of the authors views like analysis OF Locke or Bacon
discardng all superhuous verbiage and lustrationap-
peas the pure intellect and presents to its
sderation in condensed form what could be expanded
into volume Let not the reader think from this that the
work is dry and tedious one by The en-
tire solid structure Of his reasoning lumned by ge
NAL wit and humor and the arches and archaaves Of his
style so finely relieve the usual stately GOODNESS of political
philosophy that the dullet reader led from step to
step through the building delighted with the original yet
classic genius Of the architect
But what does this strange word sociology" mean 1t
is word Of German French manufacture meaning the
science Of society socialism" And does your
thor Mr. Reviewer wish introduce that horrd monster
Of infdel France and abolition New England socialism
into the sunny South n Wait moment my good friend
until explain this you The Failure Of Free Society is
fact unwittingy acknowledged by all the leading minds
of England and France The Laissezfaire and Pasrop
qouperner sy stem of societythe Let alone and "Don
panhas been found every year to crush
more and more the lower classes of large communities
where there is labor than demand and where compe
ttion adds every year the exorbtant gains of the
ployer All the leading English reviews acknowledge the
starving and desperate condition of the labore and each
one according his party views presents plan for
it's ameoration. The November number 1885, of Black
wood-Christopher Norths son-inaws review and Of
the most influential periodicals of the Norh-says No
man with human heart in his BOSOM unless that heart is
utterly indurated and depraved by the influence of
on can be Indifferent the fate of the working
Even If he not urged to consider the awful social
questions which daily demand attention in this per-
picking and bewdered age, by the impulses of humanity
~ hu he call OfC nj he of
interest alone should incline him to serious reflection
on subject which involves the well-being, both tenn
poral and eternal of thousands of his fellow-beings
and possibly the permanence OF order and tranquil
lity in this realm of Great Britain Our civil history
during the last thirty years Of peace resembles moth
ing the world saw which be found in the
orda Of civilization The whole face Of society has been
altered old employments have become obsolete old
toms have altered remodeed and old institutions
have undergone innovation. The modern citizen thinks
and acts differently from his fathers: what to them
object of to him subject of rdcule what
they accustomed to prize and honor he regards with
undisgused contempt All this call Improvement a-
king heed the while whether such improvement has full
filled the primary condition of contributing to and in
creasng the welfare and prosperity of the people Stats
teal books have been written to how enormously
we have increased in wealth and yet side by side with
these bulky tones you will find pamphlets containing
ample and distinct evidence that hundreds Of thousands
OF our 1nuuStTa0uS are AT mo
ment furnishing for lack of employment, compelled
sell their labor for such wreched compensation that the
paUpers dole is by many regarded with absolute enpy
Dives and Lazarus elbow another in the Streets and
our political economists select Dires tie type Of
the These stern realities, grave facts, which
it is impossible to gansay. What may be the result
Of Them unless adequate remedy be provided
it is impossible with certainty to predict; but unless
prepared to deny the doctrine of that retri-
button which has been directly revealed to from above
and of which the history of neighborng States affords
many striking examples hardly expect to
main UNPUBLISHED for what is truly national sim The Of
fence indeed according all the elements Of human cal
culatons is likely to bring its punishment It
not be that society exist in tranquility order be
permanently maintained long large portion of the
working casseso the hard-handed men whose industry
makes capital and multiply selfare exposed to the
operation Of system that makes their position less toll
cradle than that Of Egyptian bondsmen To work is not
only duty but privilege but to work against hope to
toll under absolute pressure of despair is the most misen
BILE lot that Imagination possibly conceive II is in
fact virtual abrogation Of that freedom which every
Briton is taught TO consider his brthreht but which
now however well it may sound abstract term, is
practically the of thousands placed beyond their
reach Here is question urgently presenting
itself to the consideration of all thinking question
which concerns the welfare Of hundreds of thousands
question which has been evaded by long
longer evaded that question being, whether any poss
bic means can be found for ameliorang and inn
proving the condition OF the working classes Of Great
Britain by rcscuing them from the cruel ELECTS q
that corspefon which pakes each The enemy Of has Jei
low Wheh annually dr'ring from our shores eroards q
best and industrious artisans; whicA consgns
from absolute Indulgence 10 aamy; dries up tie most
secret springs Of affection the heart, The jau aud
the pocrhouss and eating like fatal canker info The gerry
Aeartood II society," The remedy proposed by this wr
il protective tariff and the opening OF fields Of
labor The Edinburgh Review, and in fact every promi-
in England and France admits the times to be
sadly OF joint and each has favorite remedial
theory TO suggest The plan that receives favor from
the French and from large class Of the English, inclu
ding the workingpeope themselves is socaiismhat is
the banding together TO supper, each other and to
prevent the ruinous consequences of individual compc
ton The present Emperor Of the French is socialist
and he builds houses the SOCIAL plan for working-mcn
and his Queen is providing nurseries and nurses for the
children Of the working just souheners do
for our negro women and children. Socialism in it,
most perfect FORM southern slaverytha is the
union OF capital and labor upon the most advantageous
terms for both The laborer nurturcd sendery in In