Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-03-07
LovDoy LABoRERs AND SOUTHERN SLAVES.

LONDON LABOREkS AND SOUTHERN SLAVES.
The late arrivals from England bring US tidings
Of distress and desttudon among the freq laborers
Of L'rdon, which, slys tha Richmond Eaqaire~,
has 10 parallel n this country, except among tie
lGbJrars IN the free States where similar scenes
sometimes occ7r Wit the dgu5le o5jsc, ofteach-
ing our people to- value of their Institutions, and
to show our friends in free socie 3, that there is
annie employment for 81 their benevolent in0ul-
ses elsewhere fhaa among the negro saves we
present tue following glimpse OF tie beauties of
free socjsty:
TIE uiseriss If the unemployed classes in Lou
! don continue 90 uaks themselves painfuIy aDps-
| rent Toe several police courts are basieged daily
boy applicants iUf relief; and arge grOuos, We learn
parade .na streets chanting words distress, and
| bearing pubic d-c,lrs-i1n that they are out OF
/ work and wa employment. The proc eIings at
/ lhe Mansion h use may re taken as type Of what
! cecl.5cI .. t-o other yfdcss Tlr5e parties, de.
! scrbing tbems lives respectively as r. grauer
! house decorator, aud yIckisVer waited upon the
! Lord Msv-T on Wednesday, 10 MAKE Application
| Oil T. g gsr5 OF ghzuge.gss and Others. Here are
! t-e.rB l,sm5H,s:
Tbs brick aver said he had not been to the par
isn, snl did not want 20 so. ), there was posi-
| tii.y Of getting work or keeD'zg away at all
| The house decorator said he had a vi sud
chi5 81d having been cut OF work for four months
! had only been aoi. TO support them by pedging
/ AID selling evsFytlIuc belonging 10 him, EXCEPT
! the e 81 hes OH their backs Yesterday, being at
/ ta ISIS. push, NE went 1',h about $50 others, to
| the worabolss, where icy wese SET to breaking
/ -es and o.. the rui % JHs d7g ae got Is and
/ Qua .=ra foG' bat most %. tie U=I who were sin
! &c 80, only "a or Cd a.d a qu7rtern loaf after
/ being q 3Rv without anything 10 CIT That was
WY u..,- as de 5tO4e breaking had 80 blister
/ 81 his uaods wcli8 be ia such q stats as TO make
/ /. iup-ss.a e t1r uru 10 Do Rav work at bis own
/ business i0r iLree weeks or month, even if he
! got any. The moor fellow here held on hs hands,
! the pam ii #,i.1, Sc he lad said, were biisteTel
/ all over.
The ora mar said be 1.a :ot -ppesr so much for
/ himself l-- the Oilers, May Of whom, who
! had heen twelve nF twenty four hOur7 W ihlut
! fo17, wers growing very nri7. He had done all
ha could % Keep tUem qliess out they were grow
Ing desperate aud threatened 20 have fJcd by fair
utsls CT foul ul!.s something wss done for them,
! snd Juat quickly A good many Of them were
srxious 10 emgrste 10 Aus.ral # they could get
! lree PASSAGE and land 20 cultivate when they
! got there
What Z startling aud destructive contrast 70 all
this is presented by the institution Of slavery in
tie southern States! At the very moment that
! tie fre5 labors7s Of London were bowling through
the streets and bassecliug he Mayor to give hem
work our slaves were quietly resting 10 their cab
/ ms. with no mlddeniug hunger iorturilg them by
day, or corroGing care TO disturb their sumbers by
I night Both classes Of abofcrs were withou,
work, but one ass p;Ioued with hunger, frenzied
. bv the offerings Of wife aud children, ready t.
s,-rTc II honest or 20 plumber to satisfy tie crav.
. iags Of hunger, while the other vas comfortably
housed, clothed aud FED saw wife and little ones
enjoying sima, comforts, am vas totally unCou-
/ earned whether tie morrow should be clear or
cloudy as, in any event, his suse 1snce was sure,
/ Without work the free is5orer starved, the save
laborer Eaas'cd ths former hcwled az Ee ran tbTo'
! the streets seeking work or bread, while the other
sang cheerful songs, or danced 10 the music of the
bsnjo as rha wood burned in the chimney, shed
/ ding warmth aud light around. Which, let MS ask
the sboa5nist had the better portion, Cd free Ia,
borer with lis poverty, buoger, pbysic Il aud men
I tai anguish, OF the negro slave with his plenty,
coateltnsr. and C,mi0Tlg2
Such are the contrasts constantly presented by
free sac.e.y aud slave sgcisy. Whatever fsuciful
seutne1 al -otis may be entertained about free
| dom and slavery no o6serv7ut msn c. deny that
the free aborsr is Infinitely below ou1 negro slaves
in all physical comforts, c2Dyeui6nces aud erjoy-
ments and that slavery avoids thousand Pr.vs-
tons snd suifsriags to which the free Iaborsr ia
subjected Is there nothing in sill ibis compensa-
ting tie slave :-r las subsection to .hc viii aud
control of anolhcr2- L. self control SO valuable
that II must he retained at The risk Of ataryation2
Must msn perish for God, after seeing his wife
and children perish, sooner than submit 30 the gov
ernmgnt Of a maste? Does The masters C5re f
the slave, at seasons when thsTe il DO work % be
hsd, AID when free laborers stsrve, give him no
claim upon the s-ryic5s and willing o5eiie1cs OF
/ the SLAYER