Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-05-02


In twenty five year. fhe laborns class of NV
York has paid for the luxury of Freedom don.
bic price for food. and an increased pauPctl=m
Of over one hundred per cent. During all tins
time. the Anti Slavery philosophers OF that
State have not ceased To ubate over the moro
abundant wealth aud prosperity of the North.
crn Suites compared with the relative develop.
mcnt Of the South. Very WELL but they iaiied
70 show TINT the laboriHe class Of the South was
mt Oh n half allowance of food, aud that as II
brilliant culmnnlion of our prosperity, one IN
seventeen of them thrown upon pubic cha
riiy as "A pauper They failed Ia show that the
labor Of the South could ever suffer restitution,
while the capital which owned and employed 1t
could command subsistence. Lastly, they fail
ed to show that Free Labor may not starve whie
capital j. swimming in boundless plenty and
luxury, and that the co existence 81 the greatest
aggregate prosperity aud the extremist destitn-
tom among the laboring class is an impossible
condition in free State.
Different results flow necessarily from differ.
cnt principles. The principle OF "frredom -
such rs we find il in England aud the NORTH
has necessary tendency to monopoly on the
onc hnu1. aud tn restitution on the other where
~ the principle Of Slavery, ms itoperates IN tn
South. leads essentially TO security Of life and
subsistence, aud To an equabfe diffusion ct com
fort amongst the laboring class. The smvehol
der owns his labor aud. therefore must TO pro.
mote his own interest. feed and clo'he It, and
improve its kill and efficiency by securing the
highest individual deyelopemrnt of the Iaborer.
Bat the non sluveholding capitalist does not own
his abar. though it sto his interest 10 absorb all
uf rs profits. The more abundant labor is and
the more productive it's; the less of its fruits IL
enjoyed BY the labefer; aud if he should happen
ia form part Of the surpusage of labor, then
he i an industrial cypher on the negative side
of the unit; he counts them less than nothing,
and consequently must receive les thnn nothing
that is. he must sarve He is dead weight;
lc, him be Topped off, it will not pay Capital any
longer To keep the life in him. lie has enjoyed
'Freedom:" voted for it, perhaps, perchnner,
fought fol it with single dcvotion-idolized ii;
now let him be martyr for it.
In Ireland, a few years ago, over n half a mil
lion oi victims performed the duty of martyrdom
for "freedon" by pershing on the public high
ways. In England the votares performed the
Office less obstrusvely, but the sacrifice in the
aggregate was probably AS large. In New ork
city, we aret bid that over ten thousand untoriu
nate sewing women penduate between sturya.
ton aud shame. And yet we can hear no end
to the story Of the diabolical vilunies of Slavery
md the tender mcrcirs and divine beauties of
"Frcedom.'
Such are some OF the inevitable results Of the
industrial chaos, called "Frecdom.' to establish
the supremacy Of which fanatics and pretended
phiInlhropists would destroy the safe. orderly
and bene fcirnt labor system Of the South. II is
II poor rec 1mmrndaion Of Il physicians prcscrip-
ton, that il l. has already poisoned his own lam-
lV,