The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-20
.THE, DAILY DISPATCH.
rr,dsv NIoruinx, March 20, 1897.


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: An Rnsiisaaiaa 10 the ssa'a
Al Engiishtnau, travelling through .ue 80
vast writes 10 the London Daily News toa'
.ouids. hold . place among the 'pee"haf ,n't,u
$50 "a n. southern States He says that 10 his
.n,,,orR tobacco chewing blinds men to beauty,
-...-x and c,ssn,iness nay, there appears to
,.,,;vs fascination In white or ornamen.ed
.,,.t.cs fir An inveterate chewer. AS caomen
80. nan All their fellows as fares, As managers
~ theatres look upon the public - money. and
doctors % ss1ects so the Handicapped towers the
gorgeous palaces the great globe fself-all are to
thu chewer but 80 many spittoons Where to
spt,. where not to spit, which point he can reach
what point he wishes he could reach, are the thirgs
ever uppermost In his mind. He has no eye for
auehs else No plaza IL sacred to him. His NO
theirs tembstone. or the eye Of an enemy. occupy
exactly the same standing in his scale of ftness
and propriety. II is the great vice of Young
America. and IL utterly destroy ing that portion OF
his person which exercises an influence upon the
Government Of the country quite as strong
though perhaps less direct, than the head-his
stomach. Tobacco chewing, meat three times
day, hot rolls and buckwheat cakes at nish' are
helping An enervating climate TO wipe out from Tue
Southern Americans all physical resemblance 10
the burly and robust race OF which they are
dyspeptic offshoot.'
The same facatiors correspondent, who seems
TO have keener appreciation ct ian IMAM '"'n
becomes melancholy and absurd, whenever ne AZ
tempts to deal with facts He comedies that Tue No
veIlfed and we'll clothed be says that the
negroes are happy, as pigs are happy win 'nei'
nos Is In q trough or as cows are happy "heo III d
field of clover, think nobody VINO mas seen 'neln
can deny" When Britain, with her Tree laoor'
can secure even that amount of physical comfort
for the great mass of the British poor, 1t will be
time enough for her tourists to mourn over the
refusal of the South to provide her well fed and
well clothed laborers, with the uusubstantial ao
siractions which this correspondent thinks would
add so much to their comfort. We venture to say
that the five hundred thousand citizens of free
labor London, who rise every morning without
knowing where they shall obtain their breakfasts,
would be better off both morally apd physically,
If they had their noses ia such trough ard
were kicking up their heels in such "a tied OF
clover" that in which, according to British les
timony, the Southern negro perpetually reves.-
Sure we are that the latter would not exchange
plenty and bondage for the freedom and starva-
ton of the London poor.
The same writer deplores the absence In the
Southwestern scenery of the Smiling cottages in
which an industrious white man untes poverty
with comfort and contentment" dreadful state
of things, where none Of the whites are poor and
none of the blacks are starving We have no
doubt this IL strange and unnatural spectacle to
eyes accustomed to the great misery of the mines,
the factories the towns, and even the agricultural
districts of Great Britain The laboring class of
stat country do not appear to be as much in love
with poverty as this sentimental tourist They
have been holding meetings lately to know what
they are to do to keep from starving to DEATH
The London Times recommends them to emigrate,
and establish their Smiling cottages in some other
country.
OF all the people in the word, those of Englard
and the Northern States ought to be the most mid
and lenient in their criticisms of slavery. II the
tree bears bitter fruits if it blights the EARTH if 1t
be Upas, filled with poisonous secretions and in
fectius the whole air with its baleful influence,
pray who planted It, who nourished it, who suffer
the least from It's disadvantages, and at the sane
time convert its poison into gold. into mighty cities
and splendid palaces, at the windows of which they
sit and sneer at tbs barbarisT and wall over the
iniquity of Southern shareholders