New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-05
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rsssDt IN our best tsctores ~ our people been
(, snythlns bat close sppeaii3n 20 - nsson into new
s.iTs. a~s to bhHs the whole 0s'''' 81 : f''''D
The italieising in these extracts Ia MI lS!IorS
and not mine. .orfn.aa
.;.l uay. but Il is not difficult to under
- r., 10 means. He is addressing himself 70
n. eu.vebolSing aristOcracy and he describes these
-, vb;te.. very much as q French philosopher
svould describe the houses OF the Fanbourg 81 Az
a,;n. 10 polite cara in the Faubourg st. German.
she collection into towns Of the poor and sunem'
p,oyed white population Of South Carolina, had
evidently given rise to some visions OF sociai OUT
bresk and anarchy, which Mr.. Taylor feels called
upon TO dispel. These poor people, who were
villina TO be industrious if they bad the opportun-
Nv TO be 40, but to whom no labor was offered ex'
cept in degrading connection with plantation Ne
sroes. had been content to struggle on, enduring
Efe in its most dscouraging forms, contending
nth absoute want and often faring worse than the
negro but yet sOlaced by the satisfaction that tney
we're above the negro in some respects. But az
length light was beginning TO penetrate even in'o
South Carolina, and these unhappy beings were
catching glimpse Of the TRUTH that even they' 10
fheir depths Of poverty and hunllaton' had some
rights and we're entitled TO some of the sympathy
which falls upon the suffering. They were fast
learning that there existed, in happier cOmmuni-
ties, modes Of industry, which, if opened TO them
would elevate them and their families from wretch
edness and ignorance TO competence and intelli-
rence. This knowledge might occasion an upheay-
Al .artouoIv threatening the social
and domestic institutions of South Carolina unless
properly directed. II, the contrary, these poor
whites could be furnished with remuneratlng LABOR,
they would place themselves in position OF com
fprt. and even become Shareholders Themselves,
Mus increasing the demand for that sort OF proper
By and enhancing ito security.
From an address upon the subject Of manutac-
lures in South Caroliaa, delivered in 1851, before
The South Carolina Institute, by WIN. Gregg, esq.,
/ make the following extracts:
"In ell other countries and particularly manufacturing
estss labor and capital assuming an p9son
Here cannot be The case CAPITA WI oe soe es1 be-
ser.ed 70 in ease Of need mt on rom b ts s neope who
ought to work and who DO not or VINO are 50 d a.
vboly unpcduetve 70 The state a. one hundred so r.
the whites Of State woud be necessary 70
Nv our Legislature for our School Fund every be
swae far the country concerned bas been niue os
Northern and Eastern find difficulty in educating their
poor ready 70 despair Of success ~ the i o5 even
many Of country people TO send their Children 10 schoo
hs strengthened my convictions that the evils exist in
wholly neglected condition Of this casf OF persons ANY mai
oosn,ry without being by that ali the capital
enerpIe and intelligence employed IN directing slave Ia
h and the consequence that large portion OF our poor
white people wholly neglected aud are suffered TO while
away an existence state but step IN advance OF ae
~ ia
M but change public sentiment will effect its cure THESE
cople must be brought daily with rich ard in
sssptthey must be smuaed 70 mental action aud taught
90 appreciate education aud the comforts OF civilized ie and
@ ws ess' De My Experience S at Graneyis has
s.shed me that unless our Poor people DC LDSs %
VIII be utterly hopeless effort TO undertake TO edasae mel
nsiy looking set of country grls as may be toana-laas
tioos and orderly people bat dtPoIso sso'sn tb
nance With the aid Of ministers Of the Gospel on the
70 geseh to them and lecture ,ne on ns
hich the place We Satisfied that nothing but time
= ysrx clear to me- that the only educating and
Cbrsnrns poor whites will be To bring them into such
shrifss and useful alas. in oar community Eowh-
houses Who does not .end al his children
tween the ages ofe and u 1t was with some al h'
1t is noticeable that Mr.. Gregg, like Mr.. Tay-
ler, begins by an attempt to allay pstrician jea-
ouses excited by the idea Of collecting the poor
whites into masses. Mr.. Gregg points out that
Che existence of Slavery enables capital to control
white labor as we'll as black, by the power which
q retains to substitute the latter, when the for
ner becomes unruly.
The whole white population of South Carolina,
BY the census Of 1850, being only 274 ,563, nearly
one half, according to Mr.. Greggs estimate, are
substantially idle and unprOductive, and would
1890, In bava snnk into n condition hut little re-
moved from barbarism. All the capital, enter
prise and intelligence Of the State being employed
In directing slave labor, these poor whites, wholly
neglected, Willing away an existence but one step
In advance Of the Indian Of the forest taught
% appreciate education and the comforts of civil.
lied life, deplorably ignorant and induced with
sFeat difficulty, and only by slow degrees to send
their children to schools, do truly constitute an
serl of rast magnitude" and call loudly for some
means Of educating and Christionisiag" them.
Gov, Hammond. in an address before the South
Carolina Institute in 1850 describes these poor
whites as follows;
They obtain preesrOus subsistence by occasional jobs by
ss. = nisa so q 1 ~ Saves ave
lascips them to plumber for their benefit"
Elsewhere Mr.. Gregg speaks as follows:
h only necessary build manufacturing village OF
shAne In heay location In part Of the State to have
crowds Of tbsse people around seeking employ half
rsdstiop"
Is it really true that South Carolina means to
dissolve this Union, if she cannot be permitted to
extend further, institutions under which one fifth
Of her people are sayages while another three ths
are slaves 7
In a paper published in 1889 upon the " Indus