The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-11-11
Tn. varkjng Men of New York.


We have here,, hrs given a readers ample De
can. AZ ,ha suf.rings Of the working men aud VI,
va, =, y.v York who, to the number Of som
rox ,honsand have been thrown, by the fnaucis
rrss.ars. ont Of employment. surprising fr.
tprs Of this condition Of things, Is the tenaeit
With which the unemployed cling to New Yort.
II was stated ut one time that twenty-five hun
ded sewing girs were thrown out Of employmen
IN the single city Of New York. distressing stat
of affairs and which, We reoeliect, among otht
demonstrations Of sympathy, to have elicited le
Ter from Wilma, which appeared in the e"iumf'
Of thu New York Express stating that, wi'hoo
doubt, many Of these girls could obtain stuat"ns
90 eeamstresses In private families In this State
fhs editors of the Express in Publishing TINS let
ter stated that the mania for city life was so stron
..n,g ,h... roor girls. that it would requir,
three or fonr months more OF hard times to max
49,, ,,nl,ns To leave New York. II this be
.h.-~ sans no great occasion for the sympatb,
xhI,b thetr condition has elected. We had sup
n,sea. nom the accounts Of the New York papers
that these unfortunate needlc-wonen were on III,
verge Of starvation but If they are provisioned fol
fouc monrh siege, that is a very different affair
Another Sew York paper, which processes its be
lief In What It calls the Fright to Lsbor," says
"Yet II . million people insist on crowding them
selves upon two three square miles OF stere'
pavement, how the Right to Labor be gusran-
tsed 10 them tteTef Suppose the next half million
persons who migrate from Europe, were to striks
port in this city, and say We like New York, ans
mean 10 stay In 10; give US work and bread here
or Ne will take the bread by force, would it b.
possible TO comply with their demandss" Thir
Journal then goes on TO say that, the last sum
nsr and fall the farmers we're almost every
whsrs throughout the country, short-handed, and
iii taha hav hlVa maid
high wages, and they have lost time and money
for the want OF labor. Nay, even now, the vast
fs!ds Of the mighty West, crying out for labo-
rers aud yet the amishing multitudes, who met
in the New York Park, aud whoss motto is Bread
or Plight, seem TO prefer Death in the city to Life
in the country"
We confess We do not understand this. 1t is
true these men may not have the means of going
10 the remote agricultural districts; they may not
know the exact localities at which their services
are required, nor the certainty of adequate renu
psration, bat an organization could be easily csab
lishsd by which all these points could be accom-
plishsd, aud large bodies of emigrsnts moved 20
any desired destination. Those Northern capital
ist. who have 30 much experience in getting mp
Kansss emigration on large scale. for political |
purposes, might organize similar scheme for the
bsRnht Of their color, and TO their own |
the comm. winter. We cannot but suspect that, |
whilst there no doubt real sufferers in New |
York, the greatest sufferers those who make |
the isss. complaints, and who prefer to die rather
than appeal to pablo charity much les, to threa-
ten robbery and rapne. The fascination of city |
life seems to b. as essential to the happiness OF
those long used TO it, stimusnts narcotics to
persons snslaved by such habits. We verify believe
tAat there are thousands of people in large
elites who reuld rather take the chances Of want,
suffering ana crime, for the sake of breathing
the asxlou, atmosphere and enjoying the intoxi
eating ekeitsasnts Of a large town than accept
life of moderate labor and ample wages in the
pure air sai temperate enjoyments Of the country
I" For years." says the New York Tribune, ave
have rsaonstra.ed against the over-mssterins ten
esnsy OF our peopls, both native and immigrant,
b crowd int cities and prefer any other employ
rnshi to that Of oul.iyatiny the earth Every oua
might see tsst there must come an end to this
that re could not all live by selling goods, forging
sxchors, practising law, making daguerreotypos,
70, &c. There must be II smaller proportion Of the
eomnuni,y employed 10 these vacations, and a
rsrIer engaged ia subdung and tiiling the soil
ii, iaased, We made oil eur cloths and in our
own country, our present proportion Of cultivators
might answer: but, since We buy these in good
part abroad, We must grow more of the where
~fthal to pay for them. We cannot pay Europe
for her fabrics IN cIerk-hirs, law daguerreotypes
any tuch notions-at least, to any great extent.
Until ne make them mainly for ourselves, there
tore, We must dig what will pay for them mainly
from the earth"
The Tribune goes on to invoke the farmers of in
land townships to club together and raise funds to
relieve New York Of her mighty army OF mendi-
eants City lie ID the passion Of the North; rural
life of the south. Yet, here the great cities
begging the country 70 deliver them from their
taeming population, and acknowledging that Agri-
euiture is the great interest How often have they
taunted the South because it is agricultural and
has few great citicsi May the day be far distant
when it shall be otherwisel Now, we have gen |
sra plenty and content, peace and innocence, law |
and order. We court not for the South such |
sores upon the body polite" such social sinas of
corruption, crime and anarchy, RS the great cities
Of this country seem to be, if the representations
Of their own newspapers TO be believed.
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