The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-10-29

n,n,,,~,~x RrYrcTs or TIE CRISIS ON FhEk ba"ohsA7
AND SLAVES.
~nur yoyt Herald, notwithstanding its tenn
,r.,x .unrort of Fremont, takes Dr. CheeSef
,nnJlv 10 task for his lunatic attempts to fasteh
.ha responsibility Of the present financial crisis
nncn the great sin and iuquity Of Southern insti-
tntiaas II calls TO the attention of his reverence
tho number Of white persons now ont OF employ
ment 10 the North. who depend on their daily '""
for their daily bread, aud says IL would be very
moderate estimate to take the number oil persons
who will be out Of employment during the coming
winter In the principal cities OF the Nortn "
2Oo O0o; and these would probably represent
million mouths that will DO crying for bread
witch .nch a state of things. the Herald declares
that the large cities Of the North can hardly nope
to escape scenes OF disorder' Ti"', """i '""' w
piIlage and plumber
M, axclaims the Herald, show is IL with our
f,i.nd. In the south The Southern States have
NOT escaped altogether the consequences OF the
present panic. There too, It has psralyzed trade
ami commerce, closed up banks and deprecated
state stocks railroad stocks and every class of pa
nor security. Merchants there have failed, and
traders been compelled 20 suspend. But the poor
the laboTing classes-how is 1t with them Are
They, exposed to the perils to which the laboring
classes of the North suhjectedl Is tbcre any
fear OF a single man, woman, or child out of the
threc millions OF negroes there dying from cold or
sIaryasong viii any Of them be driven to beg in
the streets for bread, many Of our poor mocha
mics here will doubtless be? Will the poorhouses
be Allied TO overlooking, and the soup kitchens be-
leagucred by starving hosts Let the canting,
whining crew of Northern abOlitionists answer
these questions. FoorhOuses and soup kitchens are
institutions unknown at the South, and they will
continue 20 be unknown there, even throughout the
coming winter. The three millions Of laborers at
the south will not, undertake to say, miss any
of those necessities aud comforts of life to which
they have been always accustomed. They will be
cloihe and housed and fed heretofore, and will
probably be ignorant of the fact that these hard
times
In view OF these facts.-the Herald asks-in
view Of the coutrasted effects of the crisis on the
free laborers Of the North and the slave Iaborers
Of the South-how can any candid, common sense
man profess the belief that slavery is a horrible
sin, the sum Of all impurities" the cause, that
great financier and moralist, Rev. DIR. Cheever,
says, Of our present pecuniary embarrassments,-
point of fact, it is, in its production Of cotton,
the only sheet-anchor that enables this country TO
weather the financial storm. Let DR.. Cheever,
says the Herald, " foresee what would be the con-
dition of the three millions of slaves If they were
to-day emancipated. What proportion of them
would fall victims to cold and hunger during the
coming winter" Yet, it is TO this condition that
the South. Pray, tell us, if the white aborers of
the North in danger Of staryation-men who
possess all the energy of character peculiar TO the
white race many of whom educated, and most
of them highly intelligent men-what would be-
come of Il race indoent, ignorant, fond of ease
and which never works except under compulson?