Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-10-21


d Southern Negroes and Northern Operatives.
Our Northern exchanges TEEN with the most
gloomy accounts of the prospects before the work.
ing classes Of the North. Thousands Of operatives
are thrown out Of employment by the failures Of
their employers; and with families dependent upon
their labor for support, at the commencement OF
long and rigorous winter their condition is indeed
deplorable. The amount of suffering in New York
City alone in one week. will exceed that Of all the
Southern slaves in one year; yet hypocrcal priests
and pharisaical philanthropsts will overlook the
wretchedness their own doors and roll their eyes
in holy horror at the sin of slavery" and continue
to pity the condition of the negro Verify they
but whited sepulchres, full of rottenness and cor
ruption.
The Richmond South draws the following con-
trast:
"a SIGNIFICANT CoNTRAsT.-In consequence of
the financial PRESSURE most of the tobacco factories
in this city find it prudent to reduce their force,
while others are compelled to suspend operations.
The result is, that large number of negroes are
current phraseology of the North. What becomes
Of these unhappy savesr Are they reduced to want,
or driven to earn a scant subsistence by excessive
labor? Not at all. On the contrary, they
well supplied with all the provisions of comforta
bic existence as if they we're yielding the largest
profit to their employers. They may be seen idIng
along the streets with aspect of perfect content
and exuberant good nature; for they are secure
against restitution, whatever calamity may overtake
their masters
The panic has produced the same effect in the
Nor.h, only in an infinitely more intense degree.
There, too great number of operatives are thrown
out of employment; but for them this circumstance
iS franc ,x,ith no To-
pendent upon the wages of their daily labor, the
shortest pause in their toilsome pursuits involves
proportionate dimnuton in the means of subsist-
ence. If they cannot work, they must hope to live
only by the earnings of theft upon the msera-
bic pittance of public charity. 1t is computed that
the failure of the Harpers deprives about thou
sand people at once of employment and Of bread
The majority of the factories must necessarily sus
pend operations. Indeed labor in the North will be
stricken with instantaneous and universal paralysis
and hundreds of thousands of operatives will be
thrown upon the world without penny as winter
sets in with all its seventies. In want of bread in
want of fuel, in want of clothingdestitute in short
of all the neccssares of life, they condemned
endure uncomfortable suffering. Physical prvation
always engenders social and political discont. Mt
and this multitude Of hungry and shivering malcon-
tents will view the marble palaces, sumptuous Ia
bes and gorgeous raiment of the wealthy class
with any other feeling than quiet submission to the
caprices of fortune. Neither will they think any
the better of institutions which allow if they do not
occasion, such unjust inequalities of condition.
Their restitution will declare itself in demon
straton against the repose of society and the stab
ity of government. Men at last are animals and
when suffering from hunger and of injustice,
they are capable of ferocity that might shame
brute beasts. Famine gave the tragic touch to the
first French revolution. Under similar circum.
stances, the mob of New York will exhibit as little
humanity as is recorded of the canaiHe of ST. An
tonic.
Herein we have illustration of the essential su-
perorty of society in the slave States the So
cal system of the hireling States In the South the
laboring class is content and quiet, because secure
against want and suffering. In the North the Ia
boring class is exposed to sudden privaton of the
means of subsistence, and is armed with the power
to avenge their wrongs and crafty their passions.
In the one case order and security are never in
danger of overthrow; in the other, they are at the
mercy of any accidental disturbance in the ex.
changes of the country"