Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-11-04
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4. 1856.

I
More than half century ago. two good well in.
tenioned men, Wii5eiiurce and Howard nau.ura
ted new school Of philanthropy, which chose Tor liz
subjects sc"uudFes aud savag"s. II sort of re-
viva OF the Pythasorean philosophy, which woulL!
vauly attempt TO bnuIsh misery aud pain from tie
world Tie effort would have been innocent; but for
the inevitable consequence, that in making scoun.
drels comfortable, you increased their numbers, and
made honest men less comfortable: and in encoura-
gius savsgcs in ideness aud cannibasn you imposed
heavier labors on The white race.
All the charity Of Northern and European philan.
thropiss, expended upon negroes, savages, and cri
ninas, is 80 much wresied from the earn!ngs of hon
est white w"rains men, Whose labor produces every
thing in those countriesj To be given rs u premium
to vice and ignorance, Ii is u healthy operation Of
Mature in her normal course, that visits with misery
pain and misfortune the savage and the criminal:
whilst the ''ro.e-water' philanthropy that would re-
ward and encourage them, at the expense OF the i'll.
dustrious and civilized whits aborers is thu worst Of
crimes. Well does Carlyle say in his "Mode Pri-
sons:
"On the whole, whnt a reflection Is it that can.
not bestow on an unworthy man any particle of our
benevoe our patronage, Or whatever resources
HI ours, without withdrawing it, and al that will
grow nf il, from ons worthy, to whom oi right II oe
longs!'
The true phlanthrops, does not deal in soft, affect.
ed sentimentalism. ieis ready 10 inct little pain 10
procure great deal Of happiness ready to punish the
criminal few to advance the well being OF the vrtuors
aud honest many ready to expe ensave, or exteimi-
nate, il need be, few wandering savag and cannl'
balls who misuse and abuse the gifts us Providence. 20
give room, md employment and comfort TO white,
civilized Christian men. Columbus, and Vascu De
CANA, and Cortez, and Captain Smith, and the Pu-
ritan Fathers, and Walker. and Stringfel!ow, and
A,chison, are the true phlanthropists-th men who
practically advance the "greatest good OF the
creates, number" whilst at the same time, they pun
ish, like Moses and Joshua, ignorance idoatry and
crime, and promote morality, civilization and Chris.
iiauitv. Howard and WiIberiorce, We're shams,
humbugs, who rewarded crime by Furnishing virtue.
But tho intui.iYe common sense Of fl!hustcrs
and border ruiians, will soon set all right. Nursing
scuuudrrl. aud savagrs is going out Of iaslun.-
Log cabin literature has fallen dead in the
English market; and Walker has supplauted Mrs.
Stowe in favor at court. The PythagoTran pboso-
ply of Greeley and Garrison is about 20 give way 10
a healthy, robust, SIN hating, and sin-punshing
Christianity. All this will be Effected easily and ma
uralIy, by means Of public opinion. and enlightened
and chasened by experience.
The Aboonjs,s were the Arst to discover this in
coming tide Of public opinion, and en4eavored to
iore. it, by invoking Congress- TO dedicate all the
territories to free love aud iuielity regardless Of
IN. wishes OF future settlers.
Csrlyle Las described 30 truly aud graphically the
false philanthropy that bcscs the world, that We can
not refrain from further quotations. The occasion
ustifics u.s. because the Abolitioas,s are trying to
subject liz OF the South to the greatest cTper'mcnt"m
IN nI c5lpu." that crazy philanthropy has yet at.
tempted:
"Yonder, in those dingy habatous and shops Of
red herring and tobacco pipes, where inen hnve not
vet quite declared for the devil-there sGy, land
here i. mere sea b.nch. Thiiher, 90 with your b..
u.yo!rnce ,hther Ia hose dngy cavcrns Of the poor,
and there instruct, and drl.! aud mhnaSe-lheTc'
where some irut may com" al H.
There are plenty "f such poor in New York; would
il not be betterto expena yoar chnreE yeAboii,i"n.
i.t. on them thar, to hTiU. runaway negroes IN com
pe,ou and association with them, and increase Their
taxes and H. sen their wes.s i'll order to rai1" fund
for underground railroads
II r6fOrin"rI ana workers ar" You, tI'
, nniy an the rotten material; that never .hink :"
diI;np with the material While il continues sound
that s,rrss it and strain by new rates and Hsr,H'
,n-n;s ill once it his given way and declared its.!t
rrttrn whcrrupor YOU snatch SrredIly at II, aud sry
Now let us try tu do upon itI This stressng and
.,raining this taxing AMI assessing starved three
hundred thousand lr.hnen, and liberated MS many
negroes in Jamaica. Ii beg"ts m"bs and trades
unions in New York, for abolition philanthropy eI-
penls on negroes aud other suvages what It extracts
from Northern laborers. Were |: not arrested by the
rising spirit of border ruanisn and hlibustersIn 1t
wouId free nil the negroes. aud sarve all the white
labor.r- for cat uf from the products OF slave labor
IN tI- two ludias, in Brazil and our Southern Sstcs,
starve they must. go go
beautiful blurk pcasantry. who have fallen idle
and have got the devil at your elbow; Interesting,
whit. felony, who are not iLle, but nave enlisted III
the devil. regiments of the line know that my be-
nevoIencs for you is comparatively trliiing hat
have OF that divine feeling Il due 10 Others not 10
"a universal sinsgard and sooundrel protection
society is not the one ! mean 10 institute in these
times, And you, Quaahee, my
uumpkin-(not a bad fellow either, this Qunshes,
when properly guided idle Quashte, say You
must get the devil Srat array from your eioo"' my
poor dark friend.
We cannot dismiss Mr.. Carlyle without giving Il
few Of his observations ON model prison. 1t is quite
If niece with abolition feasiiug and luniAug run.
away negroes at the expense Of poor lGborIng white
women, who ure left to live o4l and garbage from
the streets
.On the whole what n beautiful estab shment
here fitted up for the accommodation O The scoundTe!
world male and female AZ said, no Duke Of Eng
land is, for oil rational purposes, which human be.
ing can or ought TO aim at lodged, fed and clothed,
t,uded and taken care Of with such perfection.
The notable murderesses were, though with
great precautions of privacy, pointed ont to us, and
fa l.f,lrf, lt Mt than
ssen 10 notice them at all. as it found TO cherish
their vanity when visitors looked at them.
Next peghbor TO him, was notability the
second famous phiosophic chartls walking rapidly
To and fro in his private court cleGn, hgh-waled
nace the world and its quite excluded for soIno
nnnths 10 come master of his Uwn time ind spiritual
resources to, as supposed, really envlabie exent
What .believing man tn an equal extent. fancied
for nv own part, left with paper and ink, and al!
taxes and bnheratnns shut out from me- could nave
written such book, as reader hers will get out ot
me. Never, o render, never, here III II mere home,
with taxes and bOtheratons
"AjI around this beautiful establishment or Oasis OF
pur,iy intended tor the Devils regiment OF the liue,
Law continen. of dingy poor and dirty dwellings,
Where the unfortunate yet enlisted into that force
were struggling manitpldy Yin their work shops III
their marble yards, and timber yards, aud tan yards,
in their close cellars cubbl-r stalls, hungry garres,
and poor dark trade shops, with red herrlEgs aud TO.
buccu pipes crossed in the window to keep the devil
out of doors and not enlist with him. And il WAS by
a tax on them that The barracks for the regiment "i
the line were kept up. Rates on the poor servant OF
Gnd and of her majesty who still both in his
way, painfully selling red herripgs, to boil night soup
for the Devils declared elect
One quotation more. and we have done:
kefurm reform. all men and feel is, is impere.
lively needed. Reform must either be got and speed
y or else We die; and really all the men that speak.
Instruct us, saying Have you quite done your duty
to your interesting negroes IN the sugar islands -
Rush 10 the al., theD ye Rlormers, snatch up the
interesting scoundrel population thereto them be
nursing fathers and nursing mothers. And oh wash
and dress, aud teach and to the service Of
Heaven, these poor lost souls; so, assure you, will
socirty attain the needful REFORM aud life be still pos
sibs in the world Except this white.washng the
scoundre population, Sees little reform going on
AN ISSUE FOR WORKING MEN.
The question lsays the Albany Arrus 10 be decided