New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-09-28


ing well and independently are within the reach 0
all, male Or female, willing to work to obtain re
spectacle livelihood Here, boundess field for hon
est industry opens wide its gates. Here, labor re
ceves rehuneratve returns for the tasks performed
not the pittances hardly sufficient to keep body an,
soul together, so parsimoniousy doled out at tn
North Here, skill finds an illimitable space for de
velopment. Here, employers seek employees place
look or servants instead of servants for places
builders are on the q.ai viue for workmen- -maste
mechanics are continually experiencing the incon
veniences which follow a lack Of an adequate number
OF assistants In all Of the innumerable departments
ofhonorable labor there are good openings and sucf
things as scuphouses for hungry laboers' neyel
have been, and never will be known, in all human
4 probability.
In making these statements we include the South
ern States as whole-do not refer exclusively te
Louisiana or to New Orleans, although the field here
is peculiarly large and inviting. Then, let the me
chanics and working men Of less favored sections
seek the South. Let them come among us and live
labor and prosper. few years of persevering in
dustry, with the practice Of judicious economy, will
place them in position Of comparative pecuniary in
dependence they can never hope TO realize in the
overcrowded commonwealth Of the North where gu
pellnty Of labor jostes upon the heels of superfu
where wages are so meagre that severe and con
slant toll hardly sufices to enable them to Law aside
anything 70 provide for the contingencies Of sickness
Tor lack Of demand for work, and where, in large
majority Of instances, they are treated by pompous
and inflated employers with tenfold less considers
ton than Southern planter bestows upon his mean
est slaves except about election times VIXEN their
pilGnthropic oyerseers expect them to shout, vote
and hurah philanthropically for the Black Republi.
can cause. II they refuse to perform the phanthro-
tasks allotted them they generally lose their stu
ations are turned adrift on the worid-and, "soup-
houses for hungry aborers who can find no labor will
| be wanted before January -announceth the high
priest OF abolitionism and arch.propagator of q
species OF internal philanthropy the editor of the
Tribune!
No doubt of it. Hungry laborcrs," amply pro-
vided BY nature with brain, bone and sinew to earn
acomfortable subsistence starving women, SILVER
ing In the cold for lack of proper dress-famished
girls and boys, destined to perditon upon earth-wi
crowd by thousands to these souphouses with old
tn-cups, .cofieepots and mugs to obtain supply of
Wretched stuff that may keep them alive for another
miserable twentyfour hours, but which would make
the stomach of decent Louisiana negro revolt and
to vomit itup if it was forced down his throat But
let no one credit the Abolition philanthropists with
the possession of real philanthropy because of the
establishment Of these soup-houses.n If any people
DO they will fall into grave error. The tribe of
Greeleys, Parkers, Bryants, Kallochs, Stewards,
Beechers, Weeds, ETC., have no more conception of
the true meaning of theword philanthrophy than the
Hottentots or if they have they practice its oppo
SITE All the service they ever vouchsafe the unfor
tunate poor is lip servcethey never put their hands
in their pockets for the purpose of administering ma
terial aid These "sonp.housesp are, however, a
necessity, with which the philanthropists know it
would not do to dispense. /" One hundred thousand
persons says the Tribune are out Of employment
and nearly out of Means in this city" Well, deprive
this one hundred thousand persons of any chance
Of obtaining food = abolish the aforesaid "soup-
houses y altogether, and the probabilities are thou
sand to ten that one hundred thousand" human
wolves would be raging through the streets of New
York, with the awful cry of "bread Or blood upon
their lips and that the palatial residences of upper
ten Abolitiondom would be ransacked and plundered
Parson Beecher's sermons would fail to allay the
cravings OF hungry stomachs. Brother Greeleys ed
itorias, abusing and calumniating the Southern
people, would not suffice to fill empty bellies and
mawkish philanthropy, such as we have indicated
above, would find that food, not fanaronade, would
alone serve to quiet the terrific storm of human pas
slons which want and suffering had aroused It is
fear then, not humanity that provides wretched
temporary means Of relief which come under the de-
nomination of :" soup-louses.D
What an amount Of material for reflection there is
in the assertion Of the New York Tribune that one
hundred thousand persons"-w white, of course-are
out OF employment and nearly out of means in that
single city, and that souphouses for hungry labor
ers" will soon be in demand The Tribune coolly
makes the statement, then proceeds, in another
column or the next day. to stigmatize, in the gros
sest terms of opprobrium, the Southern people for
holding negroes in bondage, and to sympathize with
tne slaves for what it calls their oppressed and down
trodden condition, when the quantity of good whole.
some food that is wasted absolutely thrown away in
any ten thousand negro cabins Of the South would
amply snfce to feed comfortably those one hundred
thousand poor free white men and women in New
York, who are soon according to the Tribune, to ex
perience the pangs Of hunger, and whose main hone
for relief is resort to " soup-housesm ~
strikes u.s. as it will strike any genuine phian.
throplst, that If northern freedom brings such de.
plorable consequences upon tens of thousands of
white people there-the Abolitionists and all other
parties interested had better remedy acknowledged
Ills at home before abusing us for holding slaves,
among whom want and privaton are unknown, and
who are, to all practical ntents and purposes, the
happest, most contented and best provided for popu
lation Of laborers the sun shines upon during his
durnal course through the heavens. Don't, for the
sake of common humanity, endeavor to elevate then,
. the freedom which the "hungry laborers," unenl
ployed, of New York enjoy in repairing to the before
mentioned delectable soup houses.n s
GIQuEL d JAaIsoN's-This dry goods house, at
No. B chartres street, long avotay known for the I'M
varying magnitude variety and general elegance and excel
OF s poratons as well as the cheapn of its prices
never better prepared the calls of It's customers than At
Under the simple heading apcy and staple dry
they offer variety Of ladies' delights which ii would
e any lady week to inspect We refer to the card of
Messrs. G. al. $50 go" "
10 BROKERS' WrIcI1 -